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What is the visible part of the nail called?
The visible part of the nail is called the nail plate or nail body. It is the hard, protective outer covering of the nail.
What part does the nail body cover?
The nail body, also known as the nail plate, covers and protects the nail bed, which is the layer of skin beneath the nail. The nail body is made up of layers of a protein called keratin and plays a role in protecting the tips of the fingers and toes.
What is the purpose of the nail cuticle?
The cuticle is the layer of non living tissue that connects the nail plate to the epidermis. It protects the matrix from contaminants that could cause infection.
Where is the dividing cells of a nail located?
Nails grow by mitosis of cells in the stratum germinativum beneath the lunula (it looks like part of the noon) on the nail bed; average growth is about 0.5 mm per week, or slightly over 1 inch per year.
Of what material are finger nails made?
Keratin - the same substance that makes up hair.Anatomically fingernails and toenails, which are made of a tough protein called keratin and are produced from living skin cells in the fingers and toes, are made up of many different parts: * The free edge is the part of the nail that extends past the finger, beyond the nail plate. There are no nerve endings in the nail - this is the growing part of the nail still under the skin at the nail's proximal end. * eponychium or cuticle, is the fold of skin at the proximal end of the nail. * paronychium is the fold of skin on the sides of the nail. * hyponychium is the attachment between the skin of the finger or toe and the distal end of the nail. * nail plate is the hard and translucent portion, composed of keratin. * nail bed is the adherent connective tissue that underlies the nail, often colloquially referred to as the "quick." * lunula is the crescent shaped whitish area of the nail bed (when visible) * nail fold a fold of hard skin overlapping the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail. In common usage the word nail usually refers to the nail plate only
What part of the nail has living cells?
The nail bed
Are human nails living or nonliving?
The nail itself is non living, the nail bed (where the nail grows from) is living.
Is nail a living thing?
yes. if a nail was dead, it would turn black. they are living.
What is the middle part of the nail?
The middle part of the finger nail is called the nail plate. This is the section that is below the white part and above the lunula and cuticle.
What is your nail is part of what organ system?
The nail is part of the Integumentary System.
Part of the nail that covers the tender part of your finger?
Nail plate
Its a skin a living thing?
Yes, unlike a hair above the follicle, or the visible part of a nail. The skin is regarded as an organ.
What is the visible part of the nail called?
The visible part of the nail is called the nail plate or nail body. It is the hard, protective outer covering of the nail.
Are the nails on your toes made out of the same material as the nails on your finger?
Yes, both fingernails and toenails are made of a protein called keratin, which is also the main protein found in human hair.The part of the nail that you can see is actually non-living tissue. The only living part of the nail is the matrix, most of which lies hidden beneath the skin at the base of the nail, just as the only living part of a hair is the root hidden beheath the skin.
The part of a nail that overlies the nail bed is the?
lunale
The living cells that cause a nail to grow are found in the?
i belive it is the nail root.
What part of the nail contains nerve and blood supply?
the nail bed
