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The cuticle.
Your nails grow out from something called the germinal matrix. The matrix is located right behind the cuticle area, and a portion of the matrix can be seen at the base of the nail hence the white moon shape. The correct term for the small, white, half moon shape at the base of your fingernails is called the lunulae.
The half-moon shaped portion at the base of the nail, is called the cuticle, the white part of the nail is the lunula Possible correction: According to Wikipedia, The half-moon shaped portion at the base of the nail is actually the lunula. The cuticle is the thickened layer of skin surrounding fingernails and toenails, more correctly called the eponychium.
The Apollo 11 lsnded on the moon called tranquility Base.
It's called the lunula (the whitish half-moon at the base of the nail).
Tranquility Base
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Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, in a area called Tranqulity Base.
The American astronauts first landed on the moon, in a area called Tranquility base.
They landed on the area called Tranquility Base.
The Sea of Tranquility. That's why they called it "Tranquility Base".
That whitish crescent shaped area at the base of a finger nail is called the lunula.