Hair, Skin, Nails Flashcards
Baldness; hair loss
Alopecia
Circular shape to skin lesion
Annular
Elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter
Bulla
Skin lesions that run together
Confluent
Thick, dried out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst or dry up
Crust
Dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes as a result of increased amount of nonoxygenated hemoglobin
Cyanosis
Scooped-out, shallow depression in skin; superficial
Erosion
Intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammation
Erythema
Self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching; basic cuts
Excoriation
Linear crack in skin extending into dermis
Fissure
Boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle
Furuncle
Skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis
Hemangioma
Target shape of skin lesion
Iris/Target
Yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
Jaundice
Hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury; excess of scar tissue; think of open heart surgery scar
Keloid
Tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching
Lichenification
Benign fatty tumor
Lipoma
Softening of tissue by soaking
Maceration
Flat skin lesion with only a color change; less than 1 cm
Macule
Mole; circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes
Nevus/Nevi
Elevated skin lesion larger than 1 cm in diameter
Nodule
Excessively pale, whitish-pink color to lightly pigmented skin
Pallor
Palpable skin lesion smaller than 1 cm in diameter; know difference between papule and macule
Papule
Skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together
Plaque
Itching
Pruritis
Red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels; patches of petechiae
Purpura
Elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid; pus filled; acne
Pustule
Compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells; eczema, psoriasis
Scale
Skin lesion due to permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that are visible
Telangiectasia
Sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis; stage 2 pressure ulcer
Ulcer
Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter; chicken pox, herpes, etc.
Vesicle
Raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid; hives, mosquito bites
Wheal
Linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
Zosteriform
