PARONYCHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paronychia mean? 

• PARONYCHIA (noun)
  The noun PARONYCHIA has 2 senses:

1. infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe

2. low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts

  Familiarity information: PARONYCHIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARONYCHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("paronychia" is a kind of...):

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Paronychia; Paronychia

Hypernyms ("Paronychia" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Paronychia"):

whitlowwort (any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail))

Holonyms ("Paronychia" is a member of...):

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

 Context examples 

Also called: Fingernails, Toenails, Ingrown Nail, Paronychia

(Nail Diseases, NIH)