Finals Study Guide

Question 1

What is any color in its purest form?

Answer 1

Hue

Question 2

A protein fiber found in the dermis gives skin its elasticity and firmness is _____.

Answer 2

Elastin

Question 3

A sebaceous cyst filled with sebum/also called a wen is a what?

Answer 3

Steatoma

Question 4

What is another word for a wart?

Answer 4

Verruca

Question 5

What is the area between the eyes?

Answer 5

Glabella

Question 6

What is the border of your lip?

Answer 6

The vermillion border

Question 7

What is a rhytidectomy?

Answer 7

Facelift

Question 8

What is another word for rhytids?

Answer 8

Wrinkles

Question 9

What are ingredients that attract water?

Answer 9

Humectants

Question 10

What is the word for persistent itching?

Answer 10

Pruritus

Question 11

What word refers to the skin as a yellow-ish hue?

Answer 11

Sallow

Question 12

What is another name for herpes zoster?

Answer 12

Shingles
(Herpes simple is coldsores)

Question 13

What is a condition characterized by bacteria and yeast that causes a foul odor?

Answer 13

Bromhidrosis

Question 14

How far away should the steamer be?

Answer 14

18 inches

Question 15

What do antioxidants do for your skin?

Answer 15

Neutralize free radicals

Question 16

What do surfactants do?

Answer 16

Reduce tension between skin and product

Question 17

What is a condition with light abnormal patches of depigmented skin called?

Answer 17

Leukoderma

Question 18

Approximately what percent of aging is caused by sun exposure?

Answer 18

80%-85%

Question 19

Your sebaceous glands excrete _____.

Answer 19

Sebum

Question 20

What is desquamation?

Answer 20

Shedding keratinocytes

Question 21

What layer of the epidermis contains melanocytes?

Answer 21

Stratum Germinativum

Question 22

What is the average adult skin cell turnover rate?

Answer 22

28 days

Question 23

What is the average pH of the acid mantle?

Answer 23

5.5

Question 24

How many bones in your cranium?

Answer 24

8

Question 25

What bone forms your forehead?

Answer 25

Frontal

Question 26

What is another name for 7th cranial nerve?

Answer 26

Facial

Question 27

What is the largest and strongest bone in your face?

Answer 27

Mandible

Question 28

An independent contractor would receive a form 1099 from the business owner if their income is over _____.

Answer 28

$600

Question 29

What's the muscle that draws the eyebrows down and wrinkles the forehead vertically?

Answer 29

Corregator

Question 30

What is glycation caused by?

Answer 30

Rise in blood sugar

Question 31

What type of lesion is a pustule?

Answer 31

Primary

Question 32

What are warts caused by?

Answer 32

Virus

Question 33

What are the core ingredients of balneotherapy?

Answer 33

Mud and fango

Question 34

What is the strongest peel?

Answer 34

Phenol

Question 35

A blepharoplasty is considered a medical condition when ______.

Answer 35

You have sagging eyelids (blepharoplasty = eye lift)

Question 36

What treatment or service bypasses the epidermis to stimulate collagen in the dermis for wrinkle reduction?

Answer 36

Intense pulse light therapy (IPL)

Question 37

What is the most common BHA?

Answer 37

Salicylic acid

Question 38

Why is glycolic acid frequently used for superficial peels?

Answer 38

It has the smallest molecular size

Question 39

What is the most serious form of skin cancer?

Answer 39

Malignant melanoma

Question 40

What is actinic keratosis?

Answer 40

Precancerous/possible skin cancer

Question 41

What is pseudofolliculitis? (SOODO-FOLICK-YOU-LIE-TIS)

Answer 41

Razor bumps

Question 42

How much product is typically needed for a facial massage?

Answer 42

Teaspoon

Question 43

What is the movement for petrosage?

Answer 43

Pinching

Question 44

What's another word for tapotment?

Answer 44

Percussion

Question 45

Which system protects the body from disease?

Answer 45

Lymphatic system

Question 46

How does the skin purify the body?

Answer 46

Eliminates salt