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Beau lines

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transverse grooves on the fingernails following severe febrile disease, malnutrition, trauma, myocardial infarction, or other disorders.
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Beau lines

(bō līnz)
Transverse grooves on the fingernails following fever, malnutrition, trauma, myocardial infarction, or other severe or systemic illness.
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Beau,

Joseph H.S., French physician, 1806-1865.
Beau lines - transverse depressions on the fingernails following severe febrile disease, malnutrition, trauma, myocardial infarction, etc.
Beau syndrome - cardiac insufficiency.
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