In medicine, nail clubbing (also known as drumstick fingers and watch-glass nails) is a deformity of the fingers and fingernails associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. Hippocrates was probably the first to document clubbing as a sign of disease, and the phenomenon is therefore occasionally called Hippocratic fingers.
Idiopathic clubbing can also occur, and 60% of cases have no associated underlying disease.
Read more about Nail Clubbing: Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis, Disease Associations, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology
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“They will nail you up twixt thieves
And gamble for your little garments.
And in this you will exceed God
For on this earth
You shall know Hell—”
—Frank Horne (b. 1899)