Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun paronychia

2 senses of paronychia

Sense 1
paronychia -- (infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe)
       => infection -- (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

Sense 2
Paronychia, genus Paronychia -- (low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts)
       => caryophylloid dicot genus -- (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)