eponychium (English, noun)
expansion: eponychium (plural eponychia)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The thickened layer of skin adjoining fingernails and toenails, particularly at the base of the nail.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: eponychia
tags: plural