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Health Assesment: Hair, skin, & nails
Quiz 1
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
09/20/2010

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alopecia
Definition
(baldness) hair loss
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annular
Definition
circular shap to skin lesion
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bulla
Definition
elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm diameter
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confluent
Definition
skin lesions that run together
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crust
Definition
thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles/pustules burst or dry up
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cyanosis
Definition
dusky blue color to skin or mucos membranes due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin
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erosion
Definition
scooped out, shallow depression in skin
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erythema
Definition
intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in diluted superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammation
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exorciation
Definition
self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
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fissure
Definition
linear crack in skin extending into dermis
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furuncle
Definition
(boil) suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infeted hair follicle
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hemangioma
Definition
skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis
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iris
Definition
target shape of skin lesion
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jaundice
Definition
yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
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keloid
Definition
hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury
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lichenification
Definition
tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin, from prolonged intense scratching
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lipoma
Definition
benign fatty tumor
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maceration
Definition
softening of tissue by soaking
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macule
Definition
flat skin lesion with only color change (freckle)
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nevus
Definition
(mole) circumsized skin lesion due to excess melancytes
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nodule
Definition
elevated skin lesion, > 1 cm diameter
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pallor
Definition
excessively pale, whiteish-pink color to light pigmented skin
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papule
Definition
palpable skin lesion of < 1cm diameter
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plaque
Definition
skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together
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pruritus
Definition
itching
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purpura
Definition
red-purple skin lesion due to blood tissue from breaks in blood vessels
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pustule
Definition
elevated cavity containing thick turbid fluid
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scale
Definition
compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells
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telangiectasia
Definition
skin lesion due to permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that are visible
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ulcer
Definition
sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin extending into dermis
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vesicle
Definition
elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1cm diameter
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wheal
Definition
raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid
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zosteriform
Definition
linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
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impetigo
Definition
moist, thin roofed vesicles with thinerythematous base, contagious/ bacterial infection. most common in children and infants
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seborrheic keratoses
Definition
several areas of pigmentation that look greasy, dark, and "stuck on" his skin, do not become cancerous
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senile angiomas
Definition
several small, slightly raised, bright red dots.. not significant
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basal cell carcinoma
Definition
rounded, pearly borders and a central red ulcer
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Petechiae
Definition
Tiny punctate hemorrhages, 1-3 mm, round and discrete, dark red, purple, or brown in color
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