English Dictionary

eponychium

/ɛpəʊˈnɪkɪəm/

noun

(anatomy) The thickened layer of skin adjoining fingernails and toenails, particularly at the base of the nail.

The eponychium is the strip of skin at the base of the nail.

意味（1）

(anatomy) 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.

意味（2）

(zoology, veterinary medicine) 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.