What are fingernail moons?
Here's what the little Halfmoon under our fingernails means. The human body is truly remarkable however it's sometimes easy to take it for granted. Your body is constantly giving you all sorts of signs and some of them you might not even know about. Take the lunula, for example, these are the pale Half moon-shaped patches under our fingernails that most of us ignore every day but did you know these features actually serve some very important purposes. This crescent-shaped patch is called a lunula which actually means small moon in Latin. You can see why it's given its name, doesn't it look like a crescent moon hanging in the night sky. You might assume that everyone's lunulae looked the same but they actually appear in different ways on each person. For many people, the lunulae are most visible on their thumbs. Lunulae are part of your nail matrix. The matrix refers to the tissue just beneath your nail. It contains nerves, lymph, and blood vessels. They are respon