What material are our nails: Skin or bone? Or is is something else?

Question

Under which category do our nails fall in?

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Answer 1

nails are dead cells.. its skin not bone..

Answer 2

not sure i would say hard skin

Answer 3

Excessive calcium compound in our system...

Answer 4

nail is neither skin nor bone it is made up of keratin it is atype of protein hair is also made of keratin

Answer 5

keratinized protein

Answer 6

Your nails are made by the body from a protein called Keratin, and the same stuff is used to grow hair.

Answer 7

Oh it&#039;s skin alright, since they cover up the sensitive (even a bit bloody) portion of the finger points...that&#039;s what skin does, right?

It&#039;s the keratin, like others mentioned of course.

Aimie

Answer 8

Nails fall into the skin category as they are made up of layers of skin called keratin.

Answer 9

hair

(same as rhino horns!)

Answer 10

Made of keratin, so it&#039;s hair, but clumped together for strength.

xCherryx

Answer 11

Ehm, they say that your nail and your bone are of the same material.

But then again, there are people saying that the nail is an extension of out bones.

What is the reality? Who cares, I bite them every day anyway.

Answer 12

Nails are made up of keratin, a particular protein which is tough and fibrous. So is hair. It&#039;s the same stuff that animals&#039; hooves and horns are made up of. It&#039;s neither skin nor bone.

Answer 13

our nails are skin.. falls under the integumentary system.fingernails and toenails are made of a tough protein called keratin..