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| circular, begins in center and spreads to periphery |
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| thickened, dried out exudate left when vesicles/pustules burst or dry up |
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| bluish mottled color that signifies decreased perfusion, the tissues do not have enough oxygenated blood |
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| mucous membranes are dry and lips look parched and cracked |
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| purplish, patch results from extravasation of blood into the skin |
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| fluid accumulating in the intercellular spaces, it is not present normally |
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| scooped out but shallow depression, superficial, epidermis lost, moist but no bleeding, heals without scar |
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| intense redness of the skin form excess blood in the dilated superficial capillaries |
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| self-inflicted abrasion; superficial; sometimes crusted; scratches from intense itching ex insect bites |
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| linear crack with abrupt edges, extends into dermis, dry or moist |
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| red swollen hard tender pus-filled lesion caused by acute localized bacteria infection usually die to infected hair follicles |
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| benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis |
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| excess body hair in females forming a males sexual pattern, caused by endocrine or metabolic dysfunction or occasionally idiopathic |
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| functions as a diaphragm, varying the opening at its center |
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| a yellowish skin color indicates rising amount of bilirubin in the blood |
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| hypertrophic scar, skin level is elevated by excess scar tissue |
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| traumatic or pathological changes in previously normal structures |
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| prolonged, intense scratching eventually thickens the skin and produces tightly packed sets of papules |
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| softening of tissue by soaking |
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| solely a color change, flat, and circumscribed of less than 1 cm ex freckles |
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| irregular or notched borders, may have scaling, flaking, oozing texture |
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| (mole) circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes |
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| solid elevated hard or soft larger than 1 cm may extend deeper into dermis than papule ex xanthoma |
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| red - pink tones from the oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood are lost, the skin takes on the color of connective tissue (collagen) which is mostly white |
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| something you can feel caused by superficial thickening in the epidermis ex mole |
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| plateau like , disk shaped lesion, ex psoriasis |
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| confluent and extensive patch of petechiae and ecchymoses, red to purple, macular hemorrhage |
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| compact, desiccated flakes of skin, dry or greasy, silvery or white, from shedding of dead excess keratin cells |
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| caused by vascular dilation, permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that are visible on the skin surface |
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| deeper depression extending into dermis, irregular shape, may bleed, leaves scar when heals ex. Pressure sore |
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| wheals coalesce to form extensive reaction, intensely pruritic |
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| tiny blister full of a clear liquid |
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| like being born with a tail or extra finger |
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| excessive dryness, dry skin |
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| superficial, raised, transient, and erythematous; slightly irregular shape due to edema ex mosquito bite |
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