Derm Assessment

Question 1

What is a flat primary lesion <1 cm

Answer 1

Macule

Question 2

What is a flat primary lesion >1 cm

Answer 2

Patch

Question 3

Small, solid skin elevation <1cm

Answer 3

Papule

Question 4

Solid skin elevation >1cm

Answer 4

Plaque

Question 5

Mass 1-2cm in diameter

Answer 5

Nodule

Question 6

Mass greater than 2cm

Answer 6

Tumor

Question 7

Fluid filled lesion <1cm

Answer 7

Vesicle

Question 8

Fluid filled lesion >1cm

Answer 8

Bulla

Question 9

Raised spot <1cm containing puss

Answer 9

Pustule

Question 10

Semisolid mass, bigger than a pustule

Answer 10

Cyst

Question 11

Raised skin lesion with interstitial fluid

Answer 11

Wheal

Question 12

Blackhead or whitehead

Answer 12

Comedo

Question 13

Abscess around the hair follicle

Answer 13

Furuncle

Question 14

Group of furuncles

Answer 14

Carbuncle

Question 15

Scabies lesions

Answer 15

Burrow

Question 16

Superficial capillary dilation spider veins

Answer 16

Telangiectasia

Question 17

Flake or sheet arising from the stratum corneum

Answer 17

Scale

Question 18

Scratches on the skin

Answer 18

Excoriations

Question 19

Thickened skin d/t trauma/itching, leading to deepened skin lines

Answer 19

Lichenification

Question 20

Moist circumscribed depressed lesion resulting from the loss of portion or all of viable epidermal or mucosal epithelium

Answer 20

Erosion

Question 21

Deeper lesion involving the epidermis and at least upper dermis, leading to scarring

Answer 21

Ulceration

Question 22

Thin and wrinkled skin

Answer 22

Atrophy

Question 23

secondary lesion: Small, pupuric (purplish) lesions up to 2mm across

Answer 23

Petechiae

Question 24

discoloration of the skin d/t hemorrhage from small vessels, doesn’t blanch with pressure, larger than petechiae

Answer 24

Purpura

Question 25

Round with central clearing

Answer 25

Annular shaped

Question 26

Partial ring

Answer 26

Arcuate shaped

Question 27

Almost a full ring

Answer 27

Circinate shape

Question 28

Lesions run together, a distribution

Answer 28

Confluent

Question 29

Target shape

Answer 29

Iris shape

Question 30

Linear arrangement along a dermatome route

Answer 30

Zosteriform

Question 31

A Lace-like network

Answer 31

Reticulated

Question 32

Snakeline track

Answer 32

Serpiginous shape

Question 33

Dilated blood vessels

Answer 33

Telangiectatic shape

Question 34

A line/streak

Answer 34

Linear shape lesion

Question 35

Horny thickening

Answer 35

Keratotic shape

Question 36

What's the difference between primary and secondary lesion

Answer 36

Primary is from a disease process. Secondary evolves related to a primary lesion or from the patient's actions

Question 37

Describe the epidermis

Answer 37

Outermost layer of skin made of a basal layer that proliferates cells which mature and move up into keratocytes

Question 38

What is the stratum corneum?

Answer 38

Outermost later of the epidermis

Question 39

Describe the dermis

Answer 39

The layer below the epidermis, with blood vessels, hair follicles, and erector pili muscle

Question 40

Describe the subcutaneous layer

Answer 40

Fatty connective tissue, thermoregulator, protects from pressure ulcers and bony joints

Question 41

What is an oil-secretion gland in the dermis?

Answer 41

Sebaceous gland, lubricates hair follicles

Question 42

What is the whitish nail matrix and what does it do?

Answer 42

Lunula, proliferates epithelial cells.

Question 43

What is the thickened portion of bed responsible for nail growth?

Answer 43

Nail matrix

Question 44

What is the hard part of the nail?

Answer 44

Nail plate

Question 45

Areas of the body that do not have hair?

Answer 45

Palms, soles, lips, eyelids, labia minora, glans penis

Question 46

Term for excessive growth of hair?

Answer 46

Hypertrichosis

Question 47

Acronym for what factors to pay attention to in a derm exam?

Answer 47

Asymmetry, border irregulatiry, color variation, diameter greater than 6mm, evolving

Question 48

Fancy term for itching?

Answer 48

Pruritis