Chapter 12: Hair, Skin, and Nails (Vocab)

Question 1

(baldness) hair loss

Answer 1

Alopecia

Question 2

Circular shape to skin lesion

Answer 2

Annular

Question 3

Elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm diameter

Answer 3

Bulla

Question 4

Skin lesions that run together

Answer 4

Confluent

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Crust

Question 6

Dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin

Answer 6

Cyanosis

Question 7

Scooped out, shallow depression in skin, does not extend to dermis

Answer 7

Erosion

Question 8

Intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammation

Answer 8

Erythema

Question 9

Self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching

Answer 9

Excoriation

Question 10

Linear crack in skin extending to dermis

Answer 10

Fissure

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Furuncle

Question 12

Skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis

Answer 12

Hemangioma

Question 13

Target shape of skin lesion

Answer 13

Iris

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Jaundice

Question 15

Hypertrophic scar; extends beyond site of original injury

Answer 15

Keloid

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Lichenification

Question 17

Benign fatty tumor

Answer 17

Lipoma

Question 18

Softening of tissue by soaking

Answer 18

Maceration

Question 19

Flat skin lesion with only a color change

Answer 19

Macule

Question 20

(mole) circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes

Answer 20

Nevus

Question 21

Elevated skin lesion, >1 cm diameter

Answer 21

Nodule

Question 22

Excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin

Answer 22

Pallor

Question 23

Palpable skin lesion, <1 cm diameter

Answer 23

Papule

Question 24

Skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together

Answer 24

Plaque

Question 25

Itching

Answer 25

Pruritis

Question 26

Red-purple skin lesions due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels

Answer 26

Purpura

Question 27

Elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid

Answer 27

Pustule

Question 28

Compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells

Answer 28

Scale

Question 29

Skin lesion due to permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that visible

Answer 29

Telangiectasia

Question 30

Sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis

Answer 30

Ulcer

Question 31

Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm diameter

Answer 31

Vesicle

Question 32

Raised, red skin lesion due to 1 cm diameter

Answer 32

Wheal

Question 33

Linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route

Answer 33

Zosteriform

Question 34

Asymmetry, border, color, diameter, elevation & enlargement

Answer 34

ABCDE rule for skin lesions

Question 35

Minute, pinpoint, nonraised, perfectly round, purplish red spots caused by intradermal or submucous hemorrhage, which later turn blue or yellow

Answer 35

Petechiae

Question 36

Complete absence of melanin pigment in patchy areas

Answer 36

Vitiligo

Question 37

Profuse perspiration

Answer 37

Diaphoresis

Question 38

Bilateral edema or edema generalized over entire body

Answer 38

Anasarca