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单词 hangnail
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hangnailn.

Etymology: < hang v. + nail n.; but historically an accommodated form of angnail ; compare agnail n. 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhang-nail.
A small piece of epidermis partially detached, but hanging by one end, near to a nail.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of nails > [noun]
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1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles xxiii. 174 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Ripping of a Hang-nail is sufficient to Dispatch us.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hang-nail, a minute portion of the cuticle, rising and slivered off about the roots of the finger-nails.
1842 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 219 Will you..be so good as to remember what a hang-nail is like?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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