My pints of blueberries donât weight 16 ounces!â. A dry pint is not a measurement of weightâit is volume, as in cubic inches. (A liquid pint, as in a pint of cream, gives you fluid ounces). A pint of feathers takes up the same amount of space as a dry pint of marbles, but they certainly donât weight the same!
1 Liver disease can damage nails. 2  Thyroid diseases such as hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism may cause brittle nails or splitting of the nail bed from the nail plate (onycholysis). 3  Severe illness or surgery may cause horizontal depressions in the nails (Beau's lines).
It makes it impossible to grow them out and your nail polish always chips faster. It turns out the condition has a name: onychoschisis, which is the splitting of the nails at the end. Dermatologist Heidi Waldorf tells Fashionista it's mostly a condition that arises as we age, when our nails stop growing uniformly. The good news is that there are steps we can take to stop it from happening.