Category: N

Condition caused by an injury or disease of the nail unit.  

A substance used to remove surface moisture and tiny amounts of oil left on the natural nail plate.  

Dead, colorless tissue attached to the natural nail plate.  

Barrier products that contain ingredients designed to seal the surface and hold subdermal moisture in the skin.  

A reusable implement used to shorten the nail plate quickly and efficiently.  

The state of not having enough of a nutrient to maintain good health.  

A natural resource that can be used up faster than it can be replenished naturally.  

A natural event that causes widespread injury, death, and property damage.  

The belief in the magical power of numbers. This belief is probably universal in all sophisticated cultures. In the West it is based on the Pythagorean idea that all things can be ultimately reduced to a relationship with numbers. Pythagoras (sixth century B.C.E.), a mystic, regarded mathematics as a spiritual discipline leading to the discovery…

A new type of ray (following soon after the discovery of X rays, alpha, beta, and gamma rays), which Rene Blondlot, an eminent French physicist at the University of Nancy, believed he had discovered in 1903. This was the year in which Henri Becquerel and Pierre and Marie Curie were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize…