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32 Cards in this Set
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Alopecia
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(baldness) hair loss
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Annular
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circular shape to skin lesion
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Bulla
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elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm diameter
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Confluent
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skin lesions that run together
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Crust
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thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles/pustules burst or dry up
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Cyanosis
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dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin
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Erosion
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scooped out, shallow depression in skin
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Erythema
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intense redess of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever of inflammation
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Excoriation
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self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
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Fissure
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linear crack in skin extending into dermis
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Furuncle
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(boil) suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle
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Hemangioma
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skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis
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Iris
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target shape of skin lesion
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Jaundice
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yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
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Keloid
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hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury
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Lichenification
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tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin, from prolonged intense stretching
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Lipoma
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benign fatty tumor
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Maceration
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softening of tissue by soaking
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Macule
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(mole) circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes
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Nodule
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elevated skin lesion, >1 cm diameter
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Pallor
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excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin
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Papule
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palpable skin lesion, <1cm diameter
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Plaque
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skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together
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Pruritus
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itching
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Purpura
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red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues form breaks in blood vessels
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Pustule
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elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid
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Scale
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compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells
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Telangiectasia
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skin lesion due to permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that are visible
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Ulcer
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sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis
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Vesicle
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elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm diameter
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Wheal
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raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid
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Zosteriform
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linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve routew2
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