Images Of Beaus Lines On Nails
Your nails can develop beaus lines due to several reasons.
Images of beaus lines on nails. Beaus lines are indentations that run across the nails. Firstly an injury on the nail can cause beaus lines. These lines are always horizontal and you should not be confused by vertical lines that run from bottom of the nail cuticle to tip.
They result from a sudden interruption of nail keratin synthesis and grow distally with the nail plate. This happens when there is a physical damage to the fingernails that affects nail matrix. Beaus lines are deep grooved lines that run from side to side on the fingernail or the toenail.
Beaus lines are strictly horizontal in appearance with ridges that you can feel from your nails. Beaus lines are horizontal transverse depressions in the nail plate that run parallel to the shape of the white moon shaped portion of the nail bed lunula seen at the nails origin. The indentations can appear when growth at the area under the cuticle is interrupted by injury or severe illness.
As the nail grows the beaus lines can disappear. Conditions associated with beaus lines include uncontrolled diabetes and peripheral vascular disease as well as illnesses associated with a high fever such as scarlet fever. Additionally beaus lines also shouldnt be confused with a condition known as muehrckes lines which shows grooves that form under your nails and cannot be felt externally or physically.
This phenomenon was originally described in 1846 by the french physician joseph honore simon beau.