Medical Definition of mandibular angle. : an angle formed by the junction at the gonion of the posterior border of the ramus and the inferior border of the body of the mandible.
When a fully grown nail is atrophied, it loses its shine; loses healthy look, starts to shrink in size, and may eventually falls away. This condition is called Onychatrophia and also known as atrophy. There are number of degrees of onychatrophia condition. An individual can have only one nail that has atrophied. However, this condition can never worsen because the condition was identified and treated as soon as possible.
Ingrown nail. Onychocryptosis (from Greek á½Î½ÏÎ¾ onyx nail + ÎºÏÏÏÏÏÏ kryptos hidden), also known as an ingrown toenail, or unguis incarnates, is a common form of nail disease. It is an often painful condition in which the nail grows so that it cuts into one or both sides of the paronychium or nail bed.