Definitions

Question 1

What is a papule?

Answer 1

A small raised area

Question 2

What is a patch?

Answer 2

A large circumscribed area (completely flat)

Question 3

What is a pustule?

Answer 3

A small puss filled lesion

Question 4

What is a plaque?

Answer 4

A large raised area

Question 5

What is a macule?

Answer 5

A small circumscribed area (completely flat)

Question 6

What is a vesicle

Answer 6

A small fluid-filled lesion

Question 7

What is a bulla?

Answer 7

A large fluid-filled lesion

Question 8

What is an abscess?

Answer 8

A large pus filled lesion

Question 9

What is erosion?

Answer 9

The loss of epidermis

Question 10

What is an ulcer?

Answer 10

A loss of both the epidermis and dermis

Question 11

What is a stillbirth?

Answer 11

Dead of birth of a dead baby after 20 weeks of gestation or weighing more than 500g

Question 12

What is early neonatal death?

Answer 12

Death of baby within the first week of life

Question 13

What is late neonatal death?

Answer 13

Death of baby within first 28 days of life

Question 14

What is perinatal mortality?

Answer 14

Includes stillbirth and neonatal mortality

Question 15

What is infant mortality?

Answer 15

Death of infant within first year of life

Question 16

What is child mortality?

Answer 16

Death of child within first 5 years of life

Question 17

What is an infection?

Answer 17

Invasion of part or all of body by a microorganism

Question 18

What is a pathogen?

Answer 18

An organism tat causes disease

Question 19

What is an STI?

Answer 19

An infection by pathogen which is sexually transmissible and unlikely to be transmitted by other means?

Question 20

What is a secually transmitted disease?

Answer 20

A disorder of structure or function caused by sexually transmitted pathogen