eponychium

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɛpəʊˈnɪkɪəm/    美 /ˌɛpəˈnɪkiəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The thickened layer of skin adjoining fingernails and toenails, particularly at the base of the nail.
    — The nail is replaced to provide a physiologic dressing and to splint open the eponychium so that a new nail will grow in place.
  2. The protective capsule that surrounds the hoof of foetuses and neonates of hoofed animals, which disappears soon after birth, but remnants of which remain as part of the permanent hoof.
    — The hooves are tipped with collagenous eponychia, which prevents damage to the amnion and beyond.

词形变化

eponychia plural

词汇关系

相关词
eponychial hyponychium paronychium perionychium nail fold

词源

From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + ὀνῠ́χιον (onŭ́khion, “little claw”, diminutive of ὄνυξ (ónux)).
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