2006-08-10 15:05:07 · 27 answers · asked by Nina 2 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
Mine, personally, wood. I tore mine off years ago and use bamboo shoots in their place. WHAT a conversation started, let me tell you!
2006-08-10 15:27:16 · answer #1 · answered by jfahd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Are Fingernails?
A fingernail is produced by living skin cells in the finger. A fingernail consists of several parts including the nail plate (the visible part of the nail), the nail bed (the skin beneath the nail plate), the cuticle (the tissue that overlaps the plate and rims the base of the nail), the nail folds (the skin folds that frame and support the nail on three sides), the lunula (the whitish half-moon at the base of the nail) and the matrix (the hidden part of the nail unit under the cuticle).
Fingernails grow from the matrix. The nails are composed largely of keratin, a hardened protein (that is also in skin and hair). As new cells grow in the matrix, the older cells are pushed out, compacted and take on the familiar flattened, hardened form of the fingernail.
2006-08-10 22:12:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fingernails and toenails, which are made of protein and are a form of modified hair, are composed of:
* the nail matrix or the root of the nail - this is the growing part of the nail still under the skin at the nail's proximal end.
* eponychium or cuticle which is the fold of skin at the proximal end of the nail.
* paronychium which is the fold of skin on the sides of the nail.
* hyponychium which is the attachment between the skin of the finger or toe and the distal end of the nail.
* nail plate which is what we think of when we say nail, the hard and translucent portion, composed of keratin.
* nail bed which is the adherent connective tissue that underlies the nail.
* lunula which is the crescent shaped whitish area of the nail bed.
2006-08-10 22:18:34 · answer #3 · answered by . 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Keratin
2006-08-10 22:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Skin
2006-08-10 22:17:37 · answer #5 · answered by brookie6543 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keratin.Keratin is a specialized type of hard skin that forms the nail.
2006-08-10 22:23:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your fingernails are made of a hardened protein called keratin
2006-08-10 22:23:58 · answer #7 · answered by msuywest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bricks? Wood? Steel? Paper? Plactic? Gold? Diamond? Who knows......
2006-08-10 22:12:24 · answer #8 · answered by chilli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Protein!
2006-08-10 22:37:31 · answer #9 · answered by crownvic64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
skin...um if u eat jello or drink the mix ur nails will grow
2006-08-10 22:35:04 · answer #10 · answered by nana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋