Vocabulary Chapter 12: Skin, Hair, and Nails

Question 1

(baldness) hair loss

Answer 1

alopecia

Question 2

cicular shape to skin lesion

Answer 2

annular

Question 3

elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1cm diameter

Answer 3

bulla

Question 4

skin lesions that run together

Answer 4

confluent

Question 5

thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles/pustules burst or dry up

Answer 5

crust

Question 6

dusky blue color to skin or mucous memebrances due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin

Answer 6

cyanosis

Question 7

scooped out, shallow depression in skin

Answer 7

erosion

Question 8

intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dialated superficial capillaries as in fever or inflamation

Answer 8

erythema

Question 9

self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching

Answer 9

excoriation

Question 10

linear crack in skin extending into dermis

Answer 10

fissure

Question 11

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

Answer 11

furuncle

Question 12

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

Answer 12

hemangioma

Question 13

target shape of skin lesion

Answer 13

iris

Question 14

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

Answer 14

jaundice

Question 15

hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury

Answer 15

keloid

Question 16

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

Answer 16

lichenification

Question 17

benign fatty tumor

Answer 17

lipoma

Question 18

sofeneing of tissue by soaking

Answer 18

masceration

Question 19

flat skin l=esion with only a color change

Answer 19

macule

Question 20

(mole) circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes

Answer 20

nevus

Question 21

elecated skin lesion, >1cm diameter

Answer 21

papule

Question 22

skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together

Answer 22

plaque

Question 23

excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin

Answer 23

pallor

Question 24

itching

Answer 24

pruritus

Question 25

red-purple skin lesions due to blood in tissue from breaks in blood vessels

Answer 25

purpura

Question 26

elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid

Answer 26

pustule

Question 27

compact disiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells

Answer 27

scale

Question 28

skin lesion due to premanently enlarged and dialated blood vessels that are visible

Answer 28

telangiectasia

Question 29

slough of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis

Answer 29

ulcer

Question 30

elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1cm diameter

Answer 30

vesicle

Question 31

raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid

Answer 31

wheal

Question 32

linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route

Answer 32

zosteriform