Terry's nails is a physical finding in which fingernails and/or toenails^[1]:659 appear white with a characteristic "ground glass" appearance, with no lunula.^[2] The condition is thought to be due to a decrease in vascularity and an increase in connective tissue within the nail bed.^[3] It frequently occurs in the setting of hepatic failure, cirrhosis, diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, hyperthyroidism, and/or malnutrition. Eighty percent of patients with severe liver disease have Terry's nails, but they are also found in patients with renal failure and are described as a brown arc near the ends of the nails.^[4]

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• List of cutaneous conditions

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v • d • e Eponymous medical signs for integumentary system Skin Asboe-Hansen sign - Auspitz's sign - Crowe sign - Darier's sign - Koebner's phenomenon - Leser-Trelat sign - Florid cutaneous papillomatosis - Nikolsky's sign - Wickham striae Nails Aldrich-Mees' lines - Beau's lines - Muehrcke's lines - Terry's nails integument, SF, LCT navs: anat/physio, noncongen/congen/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous, proc skin appendage navs: anat, noncongen/congen/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous, proc

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