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CUT/O

SKIN

CUTANE/O

SKIN

TRICH/O

HAIR

PIL/O

HAIR

ONYCH/O

NAIL

UNGU/O

NAIL

SEB/O

OIL, SEBUM

SEBAC/O

OIL, SEBUM

HIDR/O

SWEAT

SUDOR/I

SWEAT

SQUAM/O

SCALY

KERAT/O

HARD, HORNY

MELAN/O

BLACK, DARK

-FEROUS

PERTAINING TO CARRYING

-IUM

STRUCTURE

LUNULA

MOON-LIKE WHITE AREA AT THE BASE OF THE NAIL

ADEN/O

GLAND

HIDRADEN/O

SWEAT GLAND

CYST

NODULE FILLED WITH A SEMI-SOLID MATERIAL

ECCHYMOSIS

HEMORRHAGE OR LEAKING OF BLOOD INTO THE SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE - COMMONLY CALLED A BRUISE

EXTRAVASATION

LEAKING

HEMATOMA

COLLECTION OF LEAKING BLOOD TRAPPED IN THE TISSUES AND PALPABLE TO THE EXAMINER

MACULE

FLAT BLEMISH OR DISCOLORATION LESS THAN 1 CM, SUCH AS A FRECKLE

NODULE

PALPABLE, SOLID LESION LESS THAN 2 CM

PAPULE

RAISED SOLID SKIN LESION RAISED LESS THAN 1 CM, SUCH AS A PIMPLE

PATCH

LARGE, FLAT, NONPALPABLE MACULE LARGER THAN 1 CM

PLAQUE

RAISED PLATEAU-LIKE PAPULE GREATER THAN 1 CM, SUCH AS PSORIATIC LESION

PURPURA

MASSIVE HEMORRHAGE INTO THE TISSUE UNDER THE SKIN

PUSTULE

SUPERFICIAL, ELEVATED LESION CONTAINING PUS THAT MAY BE THE RESULT OF AN INFECTION, SUCH AS ACNE

TELANGIECTASIA

PERMANENT DILATION OF GROUPS OF SUPERFICIAL CAPILLARIES AND VENULES

TEL/E

FAR

-ECTASIA

DILATION

TUMOR

NODULE MORE THAN 2 CM, ANY MASS OR SWELLING, INCLUDING NEOPLASMS

VESICLE

CIRCUMSCRIBED, ELEVATED LESION CONTAINING FLUID AND SMALLER THAN 1/2 CM, SUCH AS AN INSECT BITE

BULLA/BLISTER

CIRCUMSCRIBED, ELEVATED LESION CONTAINING FLUID AND GREATER THAN 1/2 CM

WHEAL

CIRCUMSCRIBED, ELEVATED PAPULE CAUSED BU LOCALIZED EDEMA WHICH CAN RESULT FROM A BUG BITE

ATROPHY

PAPER-THIN, WASTEDSKIN OFTEN OCCURRING IN THE AGED OR AS STRETCH MARKS FROM RAPID WEIGHT GAIN

CICATRIX

SCAR - AN AREA OF FIBROUS TISSUE THAT REPLACES NORMAL SKIN AFTER DESTRUCTION OF SOME OF THE DERMIS

ESCHAR

SCAB - DRIED SERUM, BLOOD AND/OR PUS

FISSURE

CRACK-LIKE LESION OF THE SKIN

KELOID

TYPE OF SCAR THAT IS AN OVERGROWTH OF TISSUE A THE SITE OF THE INJURY IN EXCESS OF THE AMOUNT OF TISSUE NECESSARY TO REPAIR THE WOUND - PARTIALLY DUE TO AN ACCUMULATION OF COLLAGEN AT THE SITE

ULCER

CIRCUMCISED CRATER-LIKE LESION OF THE SKIN OR MUCOUS MEMBRANE RESULTING FROM NECROSIS THAT CAN ACCOMPANY AN INFLAMMATORY, INFECTIOUS OR MALIGNANT PROCESS

ATOPIC DERMATITIS

CHRONIC, PRURITIC SUPERFICIAL INFLAMMATION OF THE SKIN USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH A FAMILY HISTORY OF ALLERGIC DISORDERS

CELLULITIS

DIFFUSE, SPREADING, ACUTE INFLAMMATION WITHIN SOLID TISSUES

CONTACT DERMATITIS

IRRITATED OR ALLERGIC RESPONSE OF THE SKIN THAT CAN LEAD TO AN ACUTE OR CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

ECZEMA/DERMATITS

SUPERFICIAL INFLAMMATION OF THE SKIN, CHARACTERIZED BY VESICLES, WEEPING AND PRURITUS

FOLLICULITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE HAIR FOLLICLES WHICH MAY BE SUPERFICIAL OR DEEP, AND ACUTE OR CHRONIC

FURUNCLE

LOCALIZED, SUPPURATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION ORIGINATING IN A GLAND OR HAIR FOLLICLE AND CHARACTERIZED BY PAIN, REDNESS AND SWELLING

CARBUNCLE

TWO OR MORE FURUNCLES CONNECTED BY SUBCUTANEOUS POCKETS

IMPETIGO

SUPERFICIAL VESICULOPUSTULAR SKIN INFECTION, NORMALLY SEEN IN CHILDREN

PILONIDAL CYST

GROWTH OF HAIR IN A CYST IN THE SACRAL REGION

NID/O

NEST

PRURITUS

ITCHING

SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS

INFLAMMATORY SCALING DISEASE OF THE SCALP AND FACE

CRADLE CAP

SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS IN NEWBORNS

-RRHEIC

PERTAINING TO DISCHARGE

CANDIDIASIS

YEAST INFECTION IN MOIST, OCCLUDED AREAS OF THE SKIN

MONILIASIS

YEAST INFECTION IN MOIST, OCCLUDED AREAS OF THE SKIN

DERMATOMYCOSIS

FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE SKIN

DERMATOPHYTOSIS

FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE SKIN

TINEA CAPITIS

FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE SCALP, RINGWORM OF THE SCALP

MYC/O

FUNGUS

CAPIT/O

HEAD

CORPOR/O

BODY

TINEA CORPORIS

RINGWORM OF THE BODY, MANIFESTED BY PINK TO RED PAPULOSQUAMOUS ANNULAR PLAQUES WITH RAISED BORDERS

TINEA CRURIS

JOCK-ITCH. FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA AND UPPER LEGS IN MALES

TINEA PEDIS

ATHLETE'S FOOT. FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE FOOT

PEDICULOSIS

PARASITIC INFESTATION WITH LICE INVOLVING THE HEAD, BODY OR GENITAL AREA

PEDICUL/I

LICE

SCABIES

PARASITIC INFECTION CAUSED BY MITES, CHARACTERIZED BY PRURITIC PAPULAR RASH

EXANTHEMATOUS DISEASE

GENERALLY, VIRAL DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY A SPECIFIC TYPE OF RASH - MAINLY; MEASLES, RUBELLA, FIFTH DISEASE, ROSEOLA AND CHICKENPOX

EXANTHEMAT/O

RASH

HERPES SIMPLEX VIRIS (HSV)

VIRAL INFECTION CHARACTERIZED BY CLUSTERS OF SMALL VESICLES FILLED WITH CLEAR FLUID ON RAISED INFLAMMATORY BASES ONT HE SKIN OR MUCOSA.

HSV-1

HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS THAT CAUSES FEVER BLISTERS AND KERATITIS (INFLAMMATION OF THE CORNEA)

HSV-2

HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS THAT CAUSES GENITAL HERPES

HERPES ZOSTER (SHINGLES)

ACUTE, PAINFUL RASH CAUSED BY REACTIVATION OF THE LATENT VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS

VERRUCA (WARTS)

COMMON, CONTAGIOUS EPITHELIAL GROWTHS USUALLY APPEARING ON THE SKIN OF THE HANDS, FEET, LEGS AND FACE. CAUSED BY ANY OF THE HPV TYPES

HPV

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS, OVER 60 TYPES

COMEDONES

PLUGS OF SEBUM THAT PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY BLOCK A PORE

BLACKHEAD

OPEN COMEDONE

WHITEHEAD

CLOSED COMEDONE

ALOPECIA

HAIR LOSS

HYPERTRICHOSIS (HIRSUTISM)

ABNORMAL EXCESS OF HAIR

KERATINOUS/SEBACEOUS CYST

BENIGN CAVITY LINED BU KERATINIZING EPITHELIUM AND FILLED WITH SEBUM AND EPITHELIAL DEBRIS

MILIA

TINY SUPERFICIAL KERATINOUS CYSTS CAUSED BY CLOGGED OIL DUCTS

PSORIASIS

COMMON CHRONIC SKIN DISORDER CHARACTERIZED BY CIRCUMCRIBED, SALMON-RED PATCHES COVERED BY THICK, DRY, SILVERY SCALES THAT ARE THE RESULT OF EXCESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF EPITHELIAL CELLS

CALLUS

COMMON PAINLESS THICKENING OF THE STRATUM CORNEUM AT LOCATIONS OF EXTERNAL PRESSURE OR FRICTION

CORN (CLAVUS)

HORNY MASS OF CONDENSED EPITHELIAL CELLS OVERLYING A BONY PROMINENCE AS THE RESULT OF PRESSURE OR FRICTION

DECUBITUS ULCER

BEDSORE, PRESSURE ULCER - INFLAMMATION, ULCER OR SORE IN THE SKIN OVER A BODY PROMINENCE. GRADED BY SEVERITY, STAGE 4 BEING THE WORST AND INVOLVING MUSCLE, FAT AND BONE

ICHTHYOSIS

CATEGORY OF DRY SKIN THAT HAS THE SCALY APPEARANCE OF A FISH

ICHTHY/O

FISH

XERODERMA

MILD FORM OF ICHTHYOSIS

ALBINISM

COMPLETE LACK OF MELANIN PRODUCTION BY MELANOCYTES

ALBIN/O

WHITE

DYSCHROMIA

ABNORMALITY OF SKIN PIGMENTATION

CHROM/O

COLOR

VITILIGO

BENIGN ACQUIRED DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN CONSISTING OF IRREGULAR PATCHES OF VARIOUS SIZES LACKING IN PIGMENT

ANHIDROSIS

A CONDITION IN WHICH A PERSON PRODUCES LITTLE OR NO SWEAT

HIDRADENITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE SWEAT GLANDS

HYPERHIDROSIS

EXCESSIVE PERSPIRATION CAUSED BY HEAT, STRONG EMOTION, MENOPAUSE HYPERTHYROIDISM OR INFECTION

MILIARIA

MINUTE VESICLES AND PAPULES, OFTEN WITH SURROUNDING ERYTHEMA CAUSED BY OCCLUSION OF SWEAT DUCTS DURING TIMES OF EXPOSURE TO HEAT AND HIGH HUMIDITY

ERYTHEMA

REDNESS

ONYCHIA/ONYCHITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE FINGERNAIL

ONYCHOCRYPTOSIS

INGROWN NAIL

CRYPT-

HIDDEN

ONYCHOMALACIA

SOFTENING OF THE NAILS

ONCHYOLYSIS

SEPARATION OF THE NAIL PLATE FROM THE NAIL BED

-LYSIS

LOOSENING

ONYCHOMYCOSIS

ABNORMAL CONDITION OF NAIL FUNGUS

PARONYCHIA

INFECTION OF THE SKIN BESIDE THE NAIL

SUPERFICIAL BURNS

FIRST DEGREE BURN - ONLY THE FIRST LAYER OF SKIN (EPIDERMIS) IS DAMAGED

PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN

SECOND DEGREE BURN - ONLY THE FIRST AND SECOND LAYERS OF SKIN (EPIDERMIS AND PART OF DERMIS) IS DAMAGED

SUPERFICIAL PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN

SECOND DEGREE BURN EXTENDING TO THE PAPILLARY LEVEL OF THE DERMIS

DEEP PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN

SECOND DEGREE BURN EXTENDING TO THE RETICULAR LAYER OF THE DERMIS

FULL THICKNESS BURN

THIRD DEGREE BURN - ALL LAYERS OF SKIN (EPIDERMIS, DERMIS AND SUBCUTANEOUS) ARE DAMAGED, NERVE ENDINGS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED

DEEP FULL THICKNESS BURN

FOURTH DEGREE BURN - THIRD DEGREE BURN THAT EXTENDS INTO THE MUSCLE AND BONE

ANGIOMA

LOCALIZED VASCULAR LESION THAT INCLUDES HEMANGIOMAS, VASCULAR NEVI AND LYMPHANGIOMAS

DERMATOFIBROMA

FIBROUS TUMOR OF THE SKIN THAT IS PAINLESS, ROUND, FIRM AND USUALLY FOUND ON THE EXTREMITIES

DYSPLASTIC NEVUS

MOLE OR BIRTHMARK

NEV/O

BORTHMARK

ABNORMAL CHANGES IN SKIN BLEMISH THAT COULD BE A CONCERN FOR MALIGNANCY

ASYMMETRICAL


BORDERS ARE IRREGULAR


COLOR CHANGE, UNEVEN PIGMENTATION


DIAMETER INCREASE > 6 MM


ELEVATED

LIPOMA

FATTY TUMOR THAT IS A SOFT, MOVABLE AND SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE

SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS

BENIGN, CIRCUMSCRIBED, PIGMENTED, SUPERFICIAL WARTY SKIN LESION

ACTINIC KERATOSIS

BENIGN, CIRCUMSCRIBED, PIGMENTED, SUPERFICIAL WARTY SKIN LESION CASED BY SUN EXPOSURE

ACROCHORDONS

SKIN TAGS

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (BCC)

THE MOST COMMON FORM OF SKIN CANCER, IT ORIGINATES IN THE BASAL LAYER OF THE EPIDERMIS. USUALLY OCCURS ON THE FACE AS A RESULT OF SUN EXPOSURE AND REARE METASTASIZES

KAPOSI SARCOMA

A RARE FORM OF SKIN CANCER THAT TAKES THE FORM OR RED/BLUE/BROWN/PURPLE NODULES, USUALLY ONT HE EXTREMITIES. ONE FORM MOST OFTEN APPEARS IN PATIENTS WITH DEFICIENT IMMUNE SYSTEMS

-CARCINOMA

CANCER OF EPITHELIAL ORIGIN

MALIGNANT MELANOMA

CANCEROUS TUMOR ARISING FROM MUTATED MELANOCYTES - LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FROM ALL SKIN DISEASES

SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (SCC)

SECOND MOST COMMON TYPE OF SKIN CANCER ALSO CAUSED BY SUN EXPOSURE BUT DEVELOPING FROM SQUAMOUS CELLS

EXCISIONAL BIOPSY

BIOPSY IN WHICH THE ENTIRE TUMOR MAY BE REMOVED WITH BORDERS AS A MEANS OF DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

EXFOLIATION

SCRAPING OR SHAVING OFF SAMPLES OF FRIABLE LESIONS FOR A LAB EXAMINATION

FRIABLE

EASILY CRUSHED

INCISIONAL BIOPSY

BIOPSY IN WHICH LARGER TISSUE SAMPLES MAY BE OBTAINED BU EXCISING A WEDGE OF TISSUE AND SUTURING THE INCISION

NEEDLE ASPIRATION

ASPIRATION OF FLUID FROM LESIONS TO OBTAIN SAMPLES FOR CULTURE AND EXAMINATION

SWEAT TEST

LAB TEST FOR ABNORMALLY HIGH LEVELS OF SODIUM AND CHLORIDE PRESENT IN PERSPIRATION OF PERSONS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

TZANCK TEST

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF LESIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIAGNOSING HERPES ZOSTER AND HERPES SIMPLEX

ALLOGRAFT

HARVEST OF SKIN FROM ANOTHER HUMAN DONOR FOR TEMPORARY TRANSPLANT UNTIL AN AUTOGRAFT IS AVAILABLE

ALL/O

OTHER

AUTOGRAFT

HARVEST OF THE PATIENT'S OWN SKIN FOR TRANSPLANT

DERMATOME

INSTRUMENT USED TO REMOVE SPLIT SKIN GRAFTS

FLAP

SECTION OF SKIN TRANSFERRED FROM ONE LOCATION TO AN IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT ONE

OCCLUSIVE THERAPY

USE OF A NONPOROUS OCCLUSIVE DRESSING TO COVER A TREATED AREA TO ENHANCE THE ABSORPTION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF A MEDICATION

OCCLUS/O

TO CLOSE

PSORALEN PLUS ULTRAVIOLET A THERAPY (PUVA)

DIRECTING A TYPE OF UV LIGHT ONTO PSORIATIC LESIONS

SKIN GRAFTING

SKIN TRANSPLANT PERFORMED WHEN NORMAL SKIN COVER HAS BEEN LOST AS A RESULT OF BURNS, ULCERS OR OPERATIONS OT REMOVE CANCEROUS TISSUE

FULL THICKNESS GRAFT

FREE SKIN GRAFT IN WHICH FULL PORTIONS OF BOTH THE EPIDERMIS AND THE DERMIS ARE USED

SPLIT-THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT (STSG)

SKIN GRAFT IN WHICH THE EPIDERMIS AND PARTS OF THE DERMIS ARE USED

XENOGRAFT

TEMPORARY SKIN GRAFT FROM ANOTHER SPECIES UNTIL AN AUTOGRAFT IS AVAILABLE

XEN/O

FOREIGN

CAUTERIZATION

DESTRUCTION OF TISSUE BU BURNING WITH HEAT

CAUTER/I

BURN

CRYOSURGERY

DESTRUCTION OF TISSUE THRU THE USE OF EXTREME COLD, USUALLY LIQUID NITROGEN

CRY/O

EXTREME COLD

CURETTAGE

SCRAPING OF MATERIAL FROM THE WALL OF A CAVITY OR OTHER SURFACE TO OBTAIN TISSUE FOR MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION

CURETTE

INSTRUMENT USED TO SCRAPE MATERIAL FROM THE WALL OF A CAVITY OR OTHER SURFACE TO OBTAIN TISSUE FOR MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION

ESCHAROTOMY

SURGICAL INCISION INTO NECROTIC TISSUE RESULTING FROM SEVERED BURN - USUALLY NECESSARY TO PREVENT EDEMA LEADING TO ISCHEMIA IN UNDERLYING TISSUE

ISCHEMIA

LOSS OF BLOOD FLOW

ESCHAR/O

SCAB

MOHS SURGERY

REPEATED REMOVAL AND MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF LAYERS OF A TUMOR UNTIL NO CANCEROUS CELLS ARE PRESENT

SHAVING (PARING)

SLICING OF THIN SHEETS OF TISSUE TO REMOVE LESIONS

BLEPHAROPLASTY

SURGICAL REPAIR OF THE EYELIG

BLEPHAR/O

EYELID

CHEMICAL PEEL

USE OF A MILD ACID TO PRODUCE A SUPERFICIAL BURN, NORMALLY DONE TO REMOVE WRINKLES

DERMABRASION

SURGICAL PROCEDURE TO RESURFACE THE SKIN - USED TO REMOVE ACNE SCARS, NEVI, WRINKLES AND TATTOOS

DERMAPLASTY

TRANSPLANT OF LIVING SKIN TO CORRECT EFFECTS OF INJURY, OPERATION OR DISEASE

LIPECTOMY

REMOVAL OF FATTY TISSUE

RHYTIDECTOMY

"FACE LIFT" - SURGICAL OPERATION TO REMOVE WRINKLES

RHYTID/O

WRINKLE

HYPODERMIC

GENERAL TERM FOR ANY INJECTION UNDER THE SKIN

TRANSDERMAL THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM (TTS)

TRANSDERMAL PATCH WITH MEDICATION IN A GEL-LIKE MATERIAL THAT IS APPLIED TO THE SKIN AND ABSORBED OVER TIME

SOLARCAINE OR ORAJEL

ANESTHETIC AGENTS

BENZACLIN, BACTROBAN, SUMYCIN, MINOCIN

ANTIBACTERIALS

NYSTAT, LOPROX, SPECTAZOLE

ANTIFUNGALS

CORTIZONE, LIDEX, KENALOG

ANTIINFLAMMATORIES

DEVONEX OR DRITHOCREME

ANTIPSORIATICS

PERIDEX

ANTISEPTIC

ZOVIRAX AND VALTREX

ANTIVIRALS

ELIDEL AND PROTOPIC

IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS

BENZAC, OXY10, CNDYLOX

KERATOLYTIC

OVIDE, NIX, KWELL

PEDICULICIDES

RETIN-A, ACCUTANE, TAZORAC

RETINOIDS

ELIMINATE OR EURAX

SCABICIDES

SCABICIDES

DESTROY MITES AND SCABIES

PEDICULICIDES

DESTROY LICE

KERATOLYTICS

TOPICALS USED TO BREAK DOWN HARDENED SKIN AND SHED THE TOP LAYER OF DEAD SKIN

I&D

INCISION AND DRAINAGE