Take a look at your thumb and you'll see this: It's the light half-moon shape at the very bottom of your nail. Every nail has a lunula, but it's easiest to see them on thumbnails.

The nail, also called the nail plate, is tightly connected to the skin beneath it, known as the nail bed. The half-moon shape at the base of the nail, beneath the cuticle, is known as the lunula. The ...

Closer views of the subungual hematoma from the top (A) and side (B) of the right great toe demonstrate the nail plate discoloration that overlies the lunula and extends to the borders of the ...

Nail lesions arise when psoriatic inflammation affects the nail bed, nail matrix, or both. Damage to the nail matrix leads to clinical signs such as pitting, Beau’s lines, leukonychia, trachyonychia, ...

The matrix is at the bottom of your nail by the lunula, also known as the half-moon. This area is a different color than the rest of your nail because it's where the new cells harden and become ...

After 1 month of chemotherapy, he started developing nail discolouration. There was pandigital knuckle hyperpigmentation and diffuse uniform hyperpigmentation of the lunula without thickening or ...