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23 Cards in this Set
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Circular shape to skin lesion |
Annular |
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Elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1cm in diameter |
Bulla |
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Skin lesions that run together |
Confluent |
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Thick, dried out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst and dry up |
Crust |
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Scooped out shallow depression in skin |
Erosion |
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Intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammation |
Erythema |
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Self inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching |
Excoriation |
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Linear crack in skin extending into dermis |
Fissure |
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Boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle |
Furuncle |
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Skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis |
Hemangioma |
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Target shape of skin lesion |
Iris |
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Tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching |
Lichenification |
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Flat skin lesion with only a color change |
Macule |
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Mole circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes |
Nevus |
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Elevated skin lesion larger than one centimeter diameter |
Pallor |
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Palpable skin lesion smaller than one centimeter in diameter |
Papule |
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Skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together |
Plaque |
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Red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels |
Purpura |
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Elevated cavity containing thick turbid fluid |
Pustule |
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Compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells |
Scale |
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Sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin extending into dermis |
Ulcer |
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Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1cm in diameter |
Vesicle |
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Raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid |
Wheal |
