Nail Clubbing

No this isn’t another name for bar-hopping (“Club”-ing) — nail clubbing is deformity of both the fingernails and fingers that is closely associated with heart, lung and other diseases.

The old term for clubbing was “Hippocratic Fingers” — named after the ancient Greek grandfather of medicine, Hippocrates, who first noticed the correlation between this type of deformity and internal disease.

Diseases associated with Clubbing:

• Tuberculosis
• High Blood Pressure
• Lung Cancer
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Crohn’s disease
• Liver disease
• Hyperthyroidism