onychia
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editSee onyx.
Noun
editonychia (countable and uncountable, plural onychias)
- A whitlow.
- An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editonychia
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “onychia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)