Health Assessment Vocabulary

Question 1

Alopecia

Answer 1

Baldness, or hair loss

Question 2

Annular

Answer 2

Circular shape to a skin lesion

Question 3

Bulla

Answer 3

Elevated skin cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm diameter

Question 4

Confluent

Answer 4

Skin lesions that run together

Question 5

Crust

Answer 5

thick, dried out exudate left on the skin when a vesicule/pustule bursts or dries up

Question 6

Cyanosis

Answer 6

Dusky blue color to the skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin

Question 7

Erosion

Answer 7

scooped out, shallow depression in skin

Question 8

Erythema

Answer 8

intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capilaries, as in fever or inflammation

Question 9

Excoriation

Answer 9

Self inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching

Question 10

Fissure

Answer 10

linear crack in skin extending into the dermis

Question 11

Furnucle

Answer 11

(boil) suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle

Question 12

Hemangioma

Answer 12

skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis

Question 13

Iris

Answer 13

target shape of skin lesion

Question 14

Jaundice

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Keliod

Answer 15

Hypertropic scar, elevated beyond site of injury

Question 16

Lichenification

Answer 16

tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin, from prolonged intense scratching

Question 17

Lipoma

Answer 17

benign fatty tumor

Question 18

Maceration

Answer 18

softening of the tissue by soaking

Question 19

Macule

Answer 19

flat skin lesion with only a color change

Question 20

Nevus

Answer 20

(mole) circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes

Question 21

Nodule

Answer 21

Elevated skin lesion less than 1 cm in diameter

Question 22

Pallor

Answer 22

excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin

Question 23

Papule

Answer 23

Palpable skin lesion less than 1 cm in diameter

Question 24

Plaque

Answer 24

Skin lesion in which papules coalese or come together

Question 25

Puritis

Answer 25

itching

Question 26

Purpura

Answer 26

red purple skin lesion due to blood in the tissues from breaks in blood vessels

Question 27

Pustule

Answer 27

elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid

Question 28

Scale

Answer 28

Compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells

Question 29

Telangiectasia

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Ulcer

Answer 30

sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes deep depression of the skin, extending into the dermis

Question 31

Vesicle

Answer 31

Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter

Question 32

Wheal

Answer 32

raised red skin lesion due to intersticial fluid

Question 33

Zosteriform

Answer 33

linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route (shingles)