By Elizabeth Landau, CNN. Capt. Scott Kelly, a veteran astronaut, will set the record for the longest single space mission for an American, NASA announced Monday. Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will embark on a one-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015.
Do a personâs hair and fingernails continue to grow after death? Hair and fingernails may appear longer after death, but not because they are still growing. Instead, a persons fingernails and hair may appear longer because the skin around them has retracted, according to the Dermatology Clinic at UAMS. After death, dehydration causes the skin and other soft tissues to shrink.
Onychocryptosis (from Greek á½Î½ÏÎ¾ onyx nail + ÎºÏÏÏÏÏÏ kryptos hidden), also known as an ingrown toenail, or unguis incarnates, is a common form of nail disease. It is an often painful condition in which the nail grows so that it cuts into one or both sides of the Paronychium or nail bed. The common opinion is that the nail enters inside the Paronychium but, an ingrown toenail can simply be overgrown toe skin. The condition starts from a microbial inflammation of the Paronychium, then a Granuloma, which results in a nail buried inside of the Granuloma.