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PARONYCHIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Paronychia mean?
• PARONYCHIA (noun)
The noun PARONYCHIA has 2 senses:
1. infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe
2. low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
Familiarity information: PARONYCHIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("paronychia" is a kind of...):
infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Paronychia; Paronychia
Hypernyms ("Paronychia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Paronychia"):
whitlowwort (any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail))
Holonyms ("Paronychia" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
Context examples
Also called: Fingernails, Toenails, Ingrown Nail, Paronychia
(Nail Diseases, NIH)
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