Swelling of the tissues at the fingertips associated with lung diseases, congenital heart disease and certain bowel problems. At first there is loss of the angle between the nail base and the adjacent skin. Overlying skin may become shiny and red; eventually the curve of the nail increases and the whole fingertip becomes swollen and 'club-like'.
a condition characterized by increased curvature of the nails, blood congestion in nailbeds, and increased size of the distal phalanges. Clubbing may appear in advanced cases of asbestosis, but it appears more frequently in other types of pneumoconioses.
The rounding and enlargement of the tips of the fingers and toes due to conditions where there is a low amount of oxygen in the bloodstream.
A condition, with the most outstanding feature being a lateral and longitudinal curvature, which presents a bulb-like appearance of the end of the fingers and the toes.
A broadening and thickening of the fingers or toes (distal phalanx) with increased lengthwise curvature and curvature of the tip of the nail, with flattening of the angle between the cuticle and nail. Clubbing is associated with a wide number of diseases, although it is most often noted in diseases of the heart and lungs that cause decreased blood oxygen and skin blueness (cyanosis) or lung cancer. Clubbing can also be associated with other diseases such as diseases of the liver and the gastrointestinal tract. It may also occur in families without signifying an underlying disease.
A condition that affects the toes, fingers and the tips of the fingers. They take on a bulbous appearance due to chronic hypoxia
In medicine, clubbing (or digital clubbing) is a deformity of the fingers and fingernails that is associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. Idiopathic clubbing can also occur. Hippocrates was probably the first to document clubbing as a sign of disease, and the phenomenon is therefore occasionally called Hippocratic fingers.
