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Vocabulary Chapter 12: Skin, Hair, and Nails Flashcards

(32 cards)

1
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(baldness) hair loss

A

alopecia

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2
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cicular shape to skin lesion

A

annular

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3
Q

elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1cm diameter

A

bulla

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4
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skin lesions that run together

A

confluent

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5
Q

thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles/pustules burst or dry up

A

crust

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6
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dusky blue color to skin or mucous memebrances due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin

A

cyanosis

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7
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scooped out, shallow depression in skin

A

erosion

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8
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intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dialated superficial capillaries as in fever or inflamation

A

erythema

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9
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self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching

A

excoriation

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10
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linear crack in skin extending into dermis

A

fissure

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(boil)suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle

A

furuncle

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12
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skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis

A

hemangioma

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13
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target shape of skin lesion

A

iris

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14
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yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood

A

jaundice

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15
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hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury

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keloid

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16
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tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin, from prolonged intense scratching

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lichenification

17
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benign fatty tumor

18
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sofeneing of tissue by soaking

19
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flat skin l=esion with only a color change

20
Q

(mole) circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes

21
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elecated skin lesion, >1cm diameter

22
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skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together

23
Q

excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin

24
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itching

25
red-purple skin lesions due to blood in tissue from breaks in blood vessels
purpura
26
elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid
pustule
27
compact disiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells
scale
28
skin lesion due to premanently enlarged and dialated blood vessels that are visible
telangiectasia
29
slough of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis
ulcer
30
elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1cm diameter
vesicle
31
raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid
wheal
32
linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
zosteriform