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Nail plate

Known as: Nail, nail structure, Unguis 
The hard, outer surface of the nail composed of keratinized squamous cells, which arise from the proximal nail fold.
National Institutes of Health

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32 relations
Arsenic:MCnt:Pt:Nail:QnBlood supply aspectsCandidal perionyxisCapillary refill:Time:Pt:Nail bed:Qn:Observed

Narrower (6)

Body of nailClawDorsal layer of nailStructure of nail of finger

Broader (2)

EpidermisSkin appendage structure

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Characterization of hot-melt extruded drug delivery systems for onychomycosis.
Review
1995
Review
1995
Open tibial diaphyseal fractures. Results of unreamed locked intramedullary nailing.
Forty-three high energy open tibial diaphyseal fractures were treated with unreamed locked intramedullary nails from 1989 to 1992… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Influence of type of medullary nail on the development of local infection. An experimental study of solid and slotted nails in rabbits.
Any operation involving the implantation of a foreign body increases the risk of infection. The implant material and its surface… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Locked intramedullary nailing of femoral shaft fractures.
One hundred twenty-three femoral shaft fractures were treated with Grosse-Kempf slotted, locked nails and followed for a median… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Arthrodesis of the knee with intramedullary nail fixation.
Thirty-three patients had an arthrodesis of the knee by means of an intramedullary nail introduced through the greater trochanter… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
The osteogenic response to distant skeletal injury.
We tested the hypothesis that when one bone of the skeleton is injured, others experience an osteogenic response. Although… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Patterns of expression of trichocytic and epithelial cytokeratins in mammalian tissues. II. Concomitant and mutually exclusive synthesis of trichocytic and epithelial cytokeratins in diverse human…
The hair-forming cells (trichocytes) and the mature hair contain four major trichocytic cytokeratins from each of the subfamilies… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Influence of a functional dynamic loading on bone ingrowth into surface pores of orthopedic implants.
The present status of skeletal fixation of permanent orthopedic implants by poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is discussed. It is… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Studies on locust neuromuscular physiology in relation to glutamic acid.
1. Two nerve-muscle preparations were used to investigate the physiology of the locust retractor unguis muscle in relation to L… 
Highly Cited
1953
Highly Cited
1953
The metal content of skin, nails and hair.
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