toenail Betydning & definition

Eksempler på toenail

• Lessened manual dexterity also impairs toenail cutting and in managing to fasten suitable footwear, as does decreased flexibility in the back, hips and knees.

• The old-fashioned image of the chiropodist as a trimmer of toenails and a parer of corns has been confined to the dustbin of history.

• Someone who is waiting for a coronary bypass graft is treated the same as someone with an ingrowing toenail.

• Nearly seven out of 10 over-85-year-olds cannot cut their own toenails, and rely on chiropody services.

• If there is no toenail-clipping service enabling an elderly person to go to the local newsagent, that person is being marginalised.

• Such people include a woman in her 80s who is blind, and who suffers badly from in-growing toenails.

• That can be refreshing because disciplines, like toenails, are capable of ingrowing.

• An ingrowing toenail should not be sufficient to prevent a person from getting his social services records.