Dermatology

Question 1

What are the ABCDE warning signs?

Answer 1

Asymmetry
Border
Color variation
Diameter larger than 6mm
Evolving

Question 2

What is important when documenting a lesion?

Answer 2

Color, moisture, turgor, texture, temperature

Question 3

What is Hirsutism?

Answer 3

Abnormal hair growth in a female

Question 4

What are Beau’s Nails?

Answer 4

Grooved lines that run from side to side

Question 5

What are Mee’s Nails?

Answer 5

White lines or bands that transverse the nail

Question 6

What are Lindsay’s Nails?

Answer 6

Proximal portion of the nail is whitish in appearance while distal portion is red/pink/brown with a demarcation line between

Question 7

What are Koilonychia?

Answer 7

Spoon nails

Question 8

What is pitting of the nail?

Answer 8

Pinhead sized depressions in the nail

Question 9

What are splinter hemorrhages?

Answer 9

Small areas of bleeding from capillaries under the nail

Question 10

What is a macule?

Answer 10

Flat, non-palpable, smaller than 1 cm

Question 11

What is a patch?

Answer 11

Flat, non-palpable, greater than 1 cm

Question 12

What is a wheal?

Answer 12

Solid, palpable, superficial area of cutaneous edema

Question 13

What is a papule?

Answer 13

Solid, palpable, smaller than 1 cm, elevated above skin surface

Question 14

What is a nodule?

Answer 14

Solid, palpable, 1-2 cm, usually spherical and maybe palpated deeper below the skin surface

Question 15

What is a tumor?

Answer 15

Solid, palpable, greater than 2 cm, solid mass

Question 16

What is a plaque?

Answer 16

Solid, palpable, elevated, flat topped, superficial papule with surface area greater than height, usually larger than 1 cm

Question 17

What is a vesicle?

Answer 17

Fluid filled, palpable, smaller than 1 cm, filled with serous fluid

Question 18

What is a bulla?

Answer 18

Fluid filled, palpable, greater than 1 cm, filled with serous fluid

Question 19

What is a pustule?

Answer 19

Fluid filled, palpable, similar to vesicle but filled with pus

Question 20

What is a comedo?

Answer 20

Plugged openings of a sebaceous gland

Question 21

What is a burrow?

Answer 21

Smaller than 10mm raised tunnel

Question 22

What is a cyst?

Answer 22

Palpable lesion filled with semiliquid material or fluid

Question 23

What is an abscess?

Answer 23

Accumulation of purulrunt material in the dermis

Question 24

What is a furuncle?

Answer 24

Inflammation of a hair follicle

Question 25

What is a carbuncle?

Answer 25

A coalescence of several furuncles

Question 26

What is milia?

Answer 26

Tiny, keratin filled cysts

Question 27

What is erosion?

Answer 27

Loss of part or all of the epidermis, surface is moist

Question 28

What is an ulcer?

Answer 28

Loss of epidermis and dermis may bleed

Question 29

What is a fissure?

Answer 29

Linear crack from epidermis

Question 30

What is a excoriation?

Answer 30

Superficial linear or dug out traumatized area usually self induced

Question 31

What is atrophy?

Answer 31

Thinning of skin with loss of skin markings

Question 32

What is sclerosis?

Answer 32

Diffuse or circumscribed hardening of skin

Question 33

What is scaling?

Answer 33

Heaped up keratinized cells, white flakes on the epidermis

Question 34

What is crusting?

Answer 34

Brown covering composed of dried residue of pus, serum or blood

Question 35

What is a keloid?

Answer 35

Elevated enlarging scar growing beyond boundaries of wound

Question 36

What is lichenification?

Answer 36

Roughening and thickening of epidermis accentuated skin markings

Question 37

What is petechiae?

Answer 37

Reddish-purple, non-blanching, smaller than .5 cm

Question 38

What is purpura?

Answer 38

Reddish-purple, non-blanching larger than .5 cm

Question 39

What is ecchymosis?

Answer 39

A bruise; Reddish-purple, non-blanching, variable size

Question 40

What is telangiectasia?

Answer 40

Fine, irregular dilated blood vessels

Question 41

What is spider angioma?

Answer 41

Central red body with radiating spider like arms that blanch with pressure to the central area