What is anonychia?

When a person is missing one or more nails or nails, the condition is technically called anonychia. This can happen through simple trauma, infections or diseases that have genetic causes. There are cases of anonychia in which all nails are missing, but they are rare. Anonychia, as a term, comes from two Greek words. "onyx" means nails and "and" means without.

Generally, medical experts use the term anonychia for congenital diseases that occur when the child develops abnormally. The term may not be necessary to describe the nail that the patient has torn in the accident. Like traumatic damage, certain fungal infections can disrupt the environment under the nail to the extent that the nails fall out.

A child with a congenital disease can carry one defective gene that usually contributes to the development of nails, or can carry two defective genes. When one defective gene causes the absence of nails, then is the dominant gene because a healthy copy of the gene does not check the effects of defective. Two defective genes that would not create problems if they were present as a single copy, causing recessive diseases.

There are several different diseases that may include missing nails as a symptom. One examples are doors or deafness, onystrophia, osteodystrophy and mental retardation syndrome. This syndrome, in which all four conditions are present, is very rare and produces many different symptoms. This may include a complete absence of nails or nails on the feet. Some people with the condition have nails, but are insufficiently developed compared to normal nails.

Another condition known as ISO-Kikuchi syndrome can also affect the nails of people suffering from diseases. In this case, the patient usually has insufficiently developed or missing nails on the index fingers. The nails on the thumb and the middle finger can also be affected.

Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome Je Another genetic disease that can cause nail or legs lack. This particular syndrome affects the bones of the body primarily, which in turn affects the growth of nails. Nail syndrome is another inherited state of bones that can lead to missing bones and nails. Some other conditions that show nail loss, such as epidermolysis Bullosa, in which the main symptom of the patient is brittle and blistering skin, primarily causes nail loss through the skin of the skin.