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36 Cards in this Set
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Alopecia |
Baldness; hair loss |
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Annular |
Circular shape to skin lesion |
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Bulla |
Elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter |
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Confluent |
Skin lesions that run together |
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Crust |
Thick, dried out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst or dry up |
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Cyanosis |
Dusky, blue color to skin or mucus membranes as a result of increased amount of nonoxygenated hemoglobin |
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Erosion |
Scooped out, shallow depression in the skin |
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Erythema |
Intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammation |
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Excoriation |
Self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching |
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Fissure |
Linear crack extending into dermis |
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Furuncle |
Boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicles |
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Hemangioma |
Skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the Dermis |
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Iris |
Target shape of skin lesion |
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Jaundice |
Yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood |
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Kellid |
Hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury |
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Lichenification |
Tightly packed set of applied that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching |
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Lipoma |
Benign fatty tumor |
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Maceration |
Softening of tissue by soaking |
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Macule |
Flat skin lesion with only a change in color |
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Nevus |
Mole; circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes |
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Nodule |
Elevated skin lesion larger than 1 cm |
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Pallor |
Excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin |
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Papule |
Palpable skin lesion smaller than 1 cm |
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Plaque |
Skin lesion in which poults coalesce or come together |
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Pruritus |
Itching |
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Annular |
Circular shape to skin lesion |
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Purpura |
Red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissue from breaks in blood vessel |
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Purpura |
Red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissue from breaks in blood vessel |
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Pustule |
Elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid |
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Scale |
Compact desiccated flakes of the skin from shedding of dead skin cells |
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Telangiectasia |
Skin lesion due to permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that are visible |
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Ulcer |
Sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that cause a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis |
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Vesicle |
Elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm |
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Wheal |
Raised skin lesion due to interstitial fluid |
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Wheal |
Raised skin lesion due to interstitial fluid |
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Zosteriform |
Liner shape of skin lesion along nerve route |
