Pachyderma
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008.
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- Pachydermatous
1. Thick-skinned like a pachyderm (an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus). 2. By extension, insensitive.
- Pachymeninges
The dura. From pachy- (thick) + -meninges (membranes). The singular is pachymeninx.
- Pachymeninx
The dura. From pachy- (thick) + -meninx (membrane). The plural is pachymeninges.
- Pachyonychia
Elephant nail, a fingernail or toenail that is abnormally thick. From the Greek pachys, thick + onyx, nail = thick nail.
- Pachyonychia congenita of the Jadassohn-Lewandowsk
“The nail plates of all the fingers and toes are extremely thickened, and so hard that they cannot be cut with a scissors; the father has to trim them with a hammer and chisel.”