Join free

onychia

English · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

onychia¹

  • /əʊˈnɪki.ə/

Where it comes from

From New Latin, from onych- + -ia; compare onyx.

noun onychias

  1. countable, uncountable An infection of the nailbed, which more or less always also involves the nail itself (sometimes causing the nail to slough off). Near-synonym: whitlow

    Similar: onychitis, whitlow

onychia²

  • /əʊˈnɪki.ə/

Where it comes from

From New Latin; by surface analysis, onychi(um) + -a.

noun

  1. plural plural of onychium

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"onychia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/onychia. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

onychia. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/onychia

Chicago

"onychia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/onychia.

BibTeX
@misc{onychia_2026,
  title = {onychia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/onychia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}