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Chapter 13 Flashcards

1
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Alopecia

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Baldness; hair loss

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Annular

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Circular shape to skin lesion

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Bulla

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Elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter

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Confluent

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Skin lesions that run together

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Crust

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

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Cyanosis

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Dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes as a result of increased amount of non oxygenated hemoglobin

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Erosion

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Scooped- out, shallow depression in skin

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Erythema

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

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Excoriation

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Self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching

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Fissure

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Linear crack in skin extending into dermis

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Furuncle

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Boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle

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Hemangioma

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

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Iris

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Target shape of skin lesion

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Jaundice

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

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Keloid

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Hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site or original injury

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Lichenification

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Tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching

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Lipoma

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Benign fatty tumor

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Maceration

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Softening of tissue by soaking

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Macule

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Flat skin lesion with only color change

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Nevus

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Mole; circumscribed skin lesion fir to excess melanocytes

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Nodule

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Elevated skin lesion larger than 1 cm in diameter

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Pallor

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Excessively pale, whiteish-pink color to lightly pigmented skin

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Papule

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Palpable skin lesion smaller than 1 cm in diameter

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Plaque

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Skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together

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Pruritus

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Itching

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Purpura

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

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Pustules

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Elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid

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Scale

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Compact desiccated flakes of skin form shedding of dead skin cells

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Telangiectasia

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

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Ulcer

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Sloughing or necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending to dermis

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Vesicle

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Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter

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Wheal

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Raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid

33
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Zosteriform

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Linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route

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