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| outer most layer of skin, highly differentiated |
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| basel cell layer, part of epidermis |
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| horny cell layer, part of epidermis |
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inner layer of skin
blood vessels
supportive
connective, collagen, or elastic tissue |
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| layer of adipose tissure under dermis |
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| hair on new borns to keep them warm |
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| produce a protective lipid structure, sebum, secreted through hair follicles |
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| coiledd tubules that open directly onto the skin surface and produce a dilute saline solution called sweat |
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| produce a thick, milky secretion and open into the hair follicles |
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| people molt their skin due to medication reaction |
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| loss of hair on entire body |
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| bluish-gray, caused by lack of oxygen |
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| loss of pigmentation in skin, can be blotchy or entire skin |
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| really hot, ex. fever or sunburn |
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| females have too much androgen, grow hair like males |
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| change in shape of nails, caused by chronic low oxygen levels |
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| ABCDE of self examination |
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Asymmetry
border
color
diameter
elevation or enlargement |
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| blothy, circular lesions coming together in a larger area |
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| individulized, small, singular lesions |
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| discrete lesions grouped together |
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| annular leasions grow together in a smaller area |
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| follows dermatomes on body, does not cross midline |
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| resembles iris of ete, concentric rings of color in the lesions |
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| color change only, flat and circumscribed, less than 1cm |
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| raised, superficial thickening, less than 1cm |
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| papules coalesce to form surface elevation, greater than 1cm |
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| solid, elevated, hard or soft, greater than 1cm, deeper into dermis |
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| superficial, red, raised, irregular shape due to edema |
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| greater than 3cm, firm or soft, deeper into dermis |
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| wheals coalese to form extensive reaction (pruritic) |
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| elevated cavity containing free fluid, up to 1cm |
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| fluid filled, encapsulated under the skin |
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| pus filled cavity, circumscribed and elevated |
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| dried out exudate, secondary |
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| desiccated flakes of skin, dry or greasy, silvery or white, from shedding of dead excess keratin cells, secondary |
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| linear crack with abrupt edges, extends into dermis, secondary |
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| deeper depression extending into dermis, secondary |
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| self-inflicted abrasion, secondary |
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| after a skin lesion is repaired, normal tissure is lost and replaced with connective tissure (collagen), secondary |
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| the resulting skin level is depressed with loss of tissue, thinning of the epidermis, secondary |
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| thickening of the skin from prolonged scrathing, produces tightly packed sets of papules, secondary |
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| hypertropic scar, skin level is elevated by excess scar tissue |
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abnomal abundance of vascular tissue
port wine stain
strawberry mark
carenous hemangioma |
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permanent dialation of small blood vessels that are visible on the skin surface
spider or star angioma
venous lake |
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| caused by outflow of blood from breaks in a vessel |
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| tiny red-brown pin point lesions, less than 3mm, usually r/t capillaty fragility |
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| confluent and extensive patch of petechiae, greater than 3mm, flat red purple |
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| bruise or wound whose shape suggests the instrument or weapon that caused it |
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| elevates the skin, bruise you can feel |
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| reddish-purple, nonblanchable spot of variable size, caused by trauma to blood vessels that leads to bleeding under the tissue |
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| red, moist maculopopular patch with poorly defined borders in diaper area |
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| type of dermatitis, inflammatory reaction of skin |
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| type of dermatitis, scaly white or yellowish plaques most commonly found on scalp, eybrows, eyelids, ears, axillae, chest, back |
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| plaque, chronic skin disorder, well circumscribed, raised lesions, silvery scales, common on knees and elbows |
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| contagious, bacterial infection, most common in children, red macule that turns into vesicle or bullae, then forms honey colored crust |
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| chickenpox, highly contagious, spread by droplets, lesions first appear as macules on truck then spread to extremities and face |
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| fungal infection caused by candid albicans, infects superficial layers of skin, large patch of scaly red rash with sharply demarcated borders |
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| fungal infections involving hair, skin and nails, circular lesions with clear center, spread by contact |
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| cause by dormany herpes varcella virus, acute, painful. linearly grouped vesicles that follow a dermatome, will crust over |
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| most common form of skin cancer, nodular, pigmented lesion with depressed center and rolled borders |
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| invasive, red, scaly patch with dermarcated boarders, soft, mobile and elevated skin cancer |
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| malignant proliferation of cells, variation in color of a nevi which may involve flaking, scaling or drainage |
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| malignant neoplasm often seen with AIDS, dark purple bluish lesions that start on lower extremities, painful and pruritic, tumorous skin cancer |
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| lose clumps of hair, autoimune |
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| bacteria in hair follicle |
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| female has too much androgen, grows hair like a male |
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| starts from infected hair follicle but get deeper (abscess) |
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| inflammation aroung the fingernail nail bed |
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| transverse grooves going across nail bed |
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| dark "splinter" under nail, bacterial |
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| grooves or dents in the nail |
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