Related question: as your fingernails grow out, does the skin of the nailbed conveyor-belt itself forward too? Or do the nails snap free and re-adhere farther along, like an earthquake fault settling?
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Related question: as your fingernails grow out, does the skin of the nailbed conveyor-belt itself forward too? Or do the nails snap free and re-adhere farther along, like an earthquake fault settling?
It's the latter - the new nail pushes the old nail forward, sort of sliding over the nail bed.
Either option creeps me out, honestly.