Medical terms chp 3 (2/4)

Question 1

How does contact dermatitis result?

Answer 1

From direct contact with irritants or allergens, including soaps, detergent, cleaning products and solvents

Question 2

What is atopic or allergic dermatitis due to?

Answer 2

Due to allergens that include nickel, jewelry, perfume, cosmetics, poison ivy, and latex

Question 3

Eczema

Answer 3

When the itchy skin is scratched, it becomes excoriated and produces a dry red scaly patch stick of eczema

Question 4

Seborrheic dermatitis

Answer 4

Produces a red rash over laid with a yellow oily scale and is common with people with oily skin or hair

Question 5

Stasis Dermatitis

Answer 5

Occurs in the lower leg when varicose veins slow the return of blood, and the accumulation of fluid interferes with the nourishment of the skin

Question 6

Allergen

Answer 6

Substance producing a hypersensitivity (allergic) reaction

Question 7

all- (r)

Answer 7

strange, other

Question 8

-erg- (r)

Answer 8

work, activity

Question 9

Allergenic

Answer 9

Pertaining to the capacity to produce an allergic reaction

Question 10

Allergy /allergic

Answer 10

Hypersensitivity to an allergen pertaining to being hypersensitive

Question 11

Atpoy

Answer 11

State of hypersensitivity to an allergen – allergic

Question 12

Dermatitis

Answer 12

Inflammation of the skin

Question 13

Eczema

Answer 13

Inflammatory skin disease often with a serious discharge

Question 14

Eczematous

Answer 14

Two or marked by eczema

Question 15

Excoriate

Answer 15

To scratch

Question 16

ex- (p)

Answer 16

Away from

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-ate (s)

Answer 16

Pertaining to

Question 17

-cori- (r)

Answer 17

Skin

Question 18

excoriation

Answer 18

Scratch mark

Question 19

Pruritus

Answer 19

itching

Question 20

prurit- (r)

Answer 20

itch

Question 21

Antipruritic

Answer 21

Medication against itching

Question 22

Rash

Answer 22

Skin irruption

Question 23

Seborrhea

Answer 23

Excess of amount of sebum

Question 24

-rrhea (s)

Answer 24

flow

Question 25

seb/o (r/cf)

Answer 25

sebum

Question 26

Stasis

Answer 26

Stagnation in the flow of any body fluid

Question 27

Vesicle

Answer 27

Small sack containing liquid (blister)

Question 28

Congenital

Answer 28

Present at birth

Question 29

Con- (p)

Answer 29

With

Question 30

-genit- (r)

Answer 30

Bring fourth

Question 31

Decubitus ulcer(pressure ulcer)

Answer 31

So caused by laying down for long periods of time

Question 32

-cubitus (r)

Answer 32

Lying down

Question 33

Ulcer (r)

Answer 33

Sore

Question 34

Herpes zoster (shingles)

Answer 34

Painful eruption of vesicles that follow a nerve root on one side of the body

Question 35

Macule

Answer 35

Small flat spot or patch on the skin

Question 36

Malignant

Answer 36

Tumor that invades surrounding tissues and metastasizes distant organs

Question 37

-ant (s)

Answer 37

Forming, pertaining to

Question 38

Malign (r)

Answer 38

Harm, bad

Question 39

-ancy

Answer 39

State of

Question 40

Melanin

Answer 40

Black pigment found in skin hair and retina

Question 41

Melanoma

Answer 41

Malignant neoplasm formed from cells that produce melanin

Question 42

Metastasis

Answer 42

Spread of disease from one part of the body to another

Question 43

Metastasize

Answer 43

To spread to distant parts

Question 44

Meta- (p)

Answer 44

Beyond, subsequent to

Question 45

-stasis

Answer 45

Stagnant ,staying in one place

Question 46

-ize

Answer 46

Affect in a specific way

Question 47

Nevus

Answer 47

Congenital lesion of the skin (more birthmark)

Question 48

Papillomavirus

Answer 48

Virus that causes warts and is associated with skin cancer

Question 49

Papule

Answer 49

Circumscribed elevation on the skin (pimple)

Question 50

Verruca

Answer 50

Caused by a virus

Question 51

-oma

Answer 51

Mass ,tumor

Question 52

Candida

Answer 52

A yeast like fungus

Question 53

Candidiasis

Answer 53

Infection with the yeast like fungus

Question 54

Candida albicans

Answer 54

Thrush

Question 55

Carbuncle

Answer 55

Infection of many hair follicles in a small area often on the back of the neck

Question 56

Cellulitis

Answer 56

Infection of subcutaneous connective tissue

Question 57

Contagious

Answer 57

Can be transmitted from person to person or from a person to a surface to a person

Question 58

Fungus

Answer 58

General term used to describe yeasts and molds

Question 59

Impetigo

Answer 59

Infection of the skin producing thick yellow crusts

Question 60

Infection

Answer 60

Invasion of the body by disease producing microorganisms

Question 61

Infect- (r)

Answer 61

Internal invasion, infection

Question 62

Infectious

Answer 62

Capable of being transmitted or disease caused by the action of a microorganism

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Infestation

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Act of being invaded on the skin by troublesome species, such as a parasite

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Infest

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Invade

Question 65

louse (lice)

Answer 65

Parasitic insect

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Mucocutaneous

Answer 66

Junction of skin and mucous membrane(the lips)

Question 67

Necrotizing fasciitis

Answer 67

Inflammation of fascia producing death of the tissue

Question 68

Parasite

Answer 68

And we organism that itself to live on or in and derives its nutrition from another species

Question 69

Pediculosis

Answer 69

An infestation with lice

Question 70

pedicul-

Answer 70

louse (lice)

Question 71

Scabies

Answer 71

Skin disease produced by mites

Question 72

Tinea

Answer 72

General term for a group of related skin infections caused by different species of fungi

Question 73

Toxin

Answer 73

Poisonous substance formed by cell or organism

Question 74

tox-

Answer 74

poison

Question 75

Toxicity

Answer 75

The state of being poisonous

Question 76

HIV

Answer 76

Human immuno deficiency virus

Question 77

SLE

Answer 77

Systemic lupus erythematosus