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The toenails are also at risk as the incidence of in-growing toenails and nail infections is higher in heel wearers.

High Heels can Ruin a Woman’s Health | Impact Lab 2010

'Scotland is 'an in-growing toenail' of a country'

Lib Dem PPC and MEP want a referendum Jeff 2009

“The self-indulgence of the whole thing, the complete sense of in-growing toenail; I mean Edinburgh has turned into a city where you can see its toes growing in.”

Lib Dem PPC and MEP want a referendum Jeff 2009

Dr Starkey went on in his interview to call Scotland an ‘in-growing toenail’, claiming the nation had become increasingly insular.

Lib Dem PPC and MEP want a referendum Jeff 2009

She continues to get corneal abrasions due to in-growing eyelashes and her eyes are still very bothered by bright light.

SJS - Called A Fate Worse Than Death 2006

He let me do little surgical procedures on people'dealing with an in-growing toe-nail, for example, or freezing off a wart.

Blue Shoes And Happiness Smith, Alexander McCall 2006

She blamed nearly all the defects of the modern world, from weak intellects to in-growing toe-nails, on long-dead ladies and gentlemen who, safe in the family vault, imagined that they had established their alibi.

The Coming of Bill 1928

Edwards seems to have been afflicted from the first with what is in these days irreverently called an in-growing conscience, and early formulated for himself a set of seventy resolutions of the most exalted nature, which, however praiseworthy in themselves, were too high and good for human nature's daily food, and must have made him a most uncomfortable person to live with.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Tom took up the hair-brush, and, with the back of it, he gave a smart rap on the point of an in-growing toe-nail, and slithered.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

Tight shoes cause corns and in-growing nails and other sore places on the feet.

Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System Jane Andrews 1860