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Descriptor English: Nails, Ingrown
Descriptor Spanish: Uñas Encarnadas
Descriptor uñas encarnadas
Entry term(s) onicocriptosis
uñas incarnadas
Scope note: Crecimiento excesivo lateral de las uñas hacia el pliegue. Debido a que el margen lateral de la uña actua como un cuerpo extraño, puede producirse inflamación y granulación. Este crecimiento suele estar producido por el uso de zapatos no apropiados o por un corte defectuoso de las uñas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Unhas Encravadas
Descriptor French: Ongle incarné
Entry term(s): Ingrown Nail
Ingrown Nails
Nail, Ingrown
Onychocryptoses
Onychocryptosis
Tree number(s): C17.800.529.406
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009263
Scope note: Excessive lateral nail growth into the nail fold. Because the lateral margin of the nail acts as a foreign body, inflammation and granulation may result. It is caused by improperly fitting shoes and by improper trimming of the nail.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 9454
Unique ID: D009263
NLM Classification: WR 475
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Nails, Ingrown - Preferred
Concept UI M0014430
Scope note Excessive lateral nail growth into the nail fold. Because the lateral margin of the nail acts as a foreign body, inflammation and granulation may result. It is caused by improperly fitting shoes and by improper trimming of the nail.
Preferred term Nails, Ingrown
Entry term(s) Ingrown Nail
Ingrown Nails
Nail, Ingrown
Onychocryptoses
Onychocryptosis



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