Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 here is a definition from yahoo's dictionary - of splay: (so guess it means spread apart) splay PRONUNCIATION:AUDIO: spl KEY ADJECTIVE:1. Spread or turned out. 2. Clumsy or clumsily formed; awkward. NOUN:Architecture An oblique angle or bevel given to the sides of an opening in a wall so that the opening is wider on one side of the wall than on the other. VERB:Inflected forms: splayed, splay·ing, splays TRANSITIVE VERB:1. To spread (the limbs, for example) out or apart, especially clumsily. 2. To make slanting or sloping; bevel. 3. To dislocate (a bone). Used of an animal. INTRANSITIVE VERB:1. To be spread out or apart. 2. To slant or slope. ETYMOLOGY:From Middle English splayen, to spread out, short for displayen. See display. Fingernails What are " splayed " fingernails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Since I've been extremely hypo, the last 3 yrs was the only time in my life that I could grow my nails! Weird. And, for the first time, I can't let them grow extremely long anymore because the longer they ger, the more the sides curve down and into the sides of my fingers, literally cutting off the circulation in my fingers. I used to wonder why my fingers were numb til I finally cut my nails. Why this is, I don't know, but all the rest of my life, I have had thin, tearing, see-through nails, no matter what I did to them, or what kind of vitamins I took, and now I'm 52. Does anyone know why they do that, and did it during the chronic hypo? Re: Fingernails here is a definition from yahoo's dictionary - of splay: (so guess it means spread apart) splay PRONUNCIATION:AUDIO: spl KEY ADJECTIVE:1. Spread or turned out. 2. Clumsy or clumsily formed; awkward. NOUN:Architecture An oblique angle or bevel given to the sides of an opening in a wall so that the opening is wider on one side of the wall than on the other. VERB:Inflected forms: splayed, splay·ing, splays TRANSITIVE VERB:1. To spread (the limbs, for example) out or apart, especially clumsily. 2. To make slanting or sloping; bevel. 3. To dislocate (a bone). Used of an animal. INTRANSITIVE VERB:1. To be spread out or apart. 2. To slant or slope. ETYMOLOGY:From Middle English splayen, to spread out, short for displayen. See display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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