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Hair, Skin, Nails Flashcards

1
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Baldness; hair loss

A

Alopecia

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2
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Circular shape to skin lesion

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Annular

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3
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Elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter

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Bulla

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4
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Skin lesions that run together

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Confluent

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5
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Thick, dried out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst or dry up

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Crust

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6
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Dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes as a result of increased amount of nonoxygenated hemoglobin

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Cyanosis

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7
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Scooped-out, shallow depression in skin; superficial

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Erosion

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8
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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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Erythema

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9
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Self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching; basic cuts

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Excoriation

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10
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Linear crack in skin extending into dermis

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Fissure

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Boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle

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Furuncle

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12
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Skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis

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Hemangioma

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13
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Target shape of skin lesion

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Iris/Target

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14
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Yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood

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Jaundice

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15
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Hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury; excess of scar tissue; think of open heart surgery scar

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Keloid

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16
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Tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching

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Lichenification

17
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Benign fatty tumor

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Lipoma

18
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Softening of tissue by soaking

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Maceration

19
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Flat skin lesion with only a color change; less than 1 cm

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Macule

20
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Mole; circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes

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Nevus/Nevi

21
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Elevated skin lesion larger than 1 cm in diameter

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Nodule

22
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Excessively pale, whitish-pink color to lightly pigmented skin

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Pallor

23
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Palpable skin lesion smaller than 1 cm in diameter; know difference between papule and macule

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Papule

24
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Skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together

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Plaque

25
Q

Itching

A

Pruritis

26
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Red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels; patches of petechiae

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Purpura

27
Q

Elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid; pus filled; acne

A

Pustule

28
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Compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells; eczema, psoriasis

A

Scale

29
Q

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

A

Telangiectasia

30
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Sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis; stage 2 pressure ulcer

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Ulcer

31
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Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter; chicken pox, herpes, etc.

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Vesicle

32
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Raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid; hives, mosquito bites

A

Wheal

33
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Linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route

A

Zosteriform

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