If you've noticed horizontal lines on your nails, you may be wondering what they mean. It turns out, they could be telling ...

“Leukonychia is a condition where people get these white dots or lines on their fingernails,” says Karan Lal, D.O., M.S., F.A.A.D., double board-certified dermatologist with Affiliated ...

Fingernails and toenails grow slowly, so it may take some time for the white spots or lines to disappear entirely. Fingernails typically take 6 months or more to grow out fully. Toenails can take ...

Know what lines on your nails reveal about your health. Learn which deficiencies can cause nail ridges, grooves, or other ...

Longitudinal leukonychia, which presents as a white band down the nail. Striate or transverse leukonychia, where one or more horizontal lines appear across the nail, parallel to the lunula.

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Up to 20% of people who get COVID-19 experience skin and nail changes. COVID nails is a ...

A cancer patient grew concerned when he began to develop unexplained white lines across his fingernails. The 30-year-old man said the horizontal lines across his nail beds appeared around the ...

Muehrcke's lines appear as double white lines that run across the fingernails horizontally. The condition is named after Robert Muehrcke, MD. He first described the condition in the British ...

The tumor is believed to affect the production and distribution of keratin, the type of protein that makes up the nail. The white lines represent higher levels of keratinization, or areas where ...

If you, like me, have lived your life so far being completely baffled about why you get white marks on your fingernails every now and then, despite having milk in your cereal every morning, then ...