Usually means: Cuticle skin at nail base.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. eponychium: Collins English Dictionary
  2. eponychium: Wordnik
  3. eponychium: Wiktionary
  4. eponychium: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. eponychium: Dictionary.com
  6. Eponychium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eponychium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. eponychium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Eponychium: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. eponychium: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (eponychium)

noun:  (anatomy) The thickened layer of skin adjoining fingernails and toenails, particularly at the base of the nail.
noun:  (zoology, veterinary medicine) The protective capsule that surrounds the hoof of foetuses and neonates of hoofed animals, which disappears soon after birth, but remnants of which remain as part of the permanent hoof.

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