Chapter 2: Other Terms of The Integumentary System

Question 1

What is Circumscribed?

Answer 1

Occurring in a well-defined area.

Question 2

What is Comedones?

Answer 2

Pores that are plugged with serum (oil) and dead skin cells.

Question 3

What is Cutaneous?

Answer 3

Pertaining to the skin.

Question 4

What is Decubitus Ulcer?

Answer 4

Bedsore.

Question 5

What is Diffuse?

Answer 5

Spread out over a wide area, not localized.

Question 6

What is Ecchymosis?

Answer 6

Bruise.

Question 7

What is Erythematous?

Answer 7

Abnormal redness of the skin.

Question 8

What is Exudate?

Answer 8

Fluid that leaks out of an infected wound.

Question 9

What is an inflammation?

Answer 9

Tissue response to an injury causing redness warmth swelling and pain.

Question 10

What is Lesion?

Answer 10

Area that has been damaged through injury or disease.

Question 11

What is Localized?

Answer 11

Referring to a particular area.

Question 12

What is Nevus?

Answer 12

Mole.

Question 13

What are Pores?

Answer 13

Small openings in the skin which oil and sweet reach the surface.

Question 14

What is Pruritus?

Answer 14

Itching.

Question 15

what is Purulent?

Answer 15

Containing pus.

Question 16

What is Pus?

Answer 16

Product of infection causing dead of white blood vessels and bacteria.

Question 17

What is Sebum?

Answer 17

Oily substance secreted by the sebaceous glands.

Question 18

What is Serous (serum) Drainage?

Answer 18

Wound drainage of plasma that is thin, clear and watery.

Question 19

What is Suppurative?

Answer 19

Producing pus.

Question 20

What is Uriticaria?

Answer 20

Hives.

Question 21

What is Verruca?

Answer 21

Wart.