Integumentary system - nails, Biology

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Cover terminal segment of fingers & toes.
Highly vascular dermis under lying the nail is called nail bed.
It gives pinkish colour to nail.
The small part of nail in the nail groove is called nail root.
A crescentric whitish area at the base of nail is lanula.
Epidermis adhere to lunula is epenychium.

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