ELECTROLYSIS IBEC UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔anovulatory - ✔✔without ovulation- common sign of infertility
✔✔antiseptic - ✔✔chemical used to inhibit or kill microorganisms on skin or tissue- not
the same as those used for disinfection
✔✔apocrine sweat glands - ✔✔found primarily in the armpit and genitals. Larger than
the eccrine glands- thicker secretion material than watery sweat
✔✔arrector pili muscle - ✔✔An involuntary muscle fiber attached to the underside &
base of the hair follicle- causes goose bumps
✔✔Asepsis - ✔✔Being free from infection
✔✔Asteatosis - ✔✔Dry, scaly skin from sebum deficiency
✔✔Autoclave - ✔✔apparatus for sterilizing by steam under pressure
✔✔autonomic nervous system - ✔✔nerves that control involuntary body functions of
muscles, glands, and internal organs
✔✔Bacillus - ✔✔Rod shaped bacteria
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Minute, one excelled, vegetable, organism
✔✔Bactericide - ✔✔Substance that kills bacteria
✔✔basal cell carcinoma - ✔✔Most common and least severe type of skin cancer; often
characterized by light or pearly nodules.
✔✔Benign - ✔✔Not recurrent, non malignant
✔✔benzoyl peroxide - ✔✔The active ingredient in many acne treatment products
✔✔blackhead - ✔✔comedone: plug of sebum in a pore-darkens when exposed to air
✔✔Blanching - ✔✔White color of the skin from overtreating the skin with high frequency
current
✔✔Blend method - ✔✔Use of galvanic and high frequency currents used either
superimposed in one another or sequentially
, ✔✔Bulbous - ✔✔Shaped like a bulb
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Blister containing watery fluid
✔✔Calamine - ✔✔Gives a soothing protective coating for itching dermatitis. Pink
colored antiseptic containing zinc and ferric oxide
✔✔carcinoma - ✔✔a malignant tumor that occurs in epithelial tissue and may infiltrate
local tissues
✔✔Catagen - ✔✔Transition stage of hair growth
✔✔Cataphoresis - ✔✔Use of positive electrode to force substances into the skin to stop
galvanic action and sooth the skin
✔✔Caustic - ✔✔Corrosive chemical agent - can burn or destroy living tissue
✔✔Cathode - ✔✔Negative pole in direct current
✔✔Cell - ✔✔Unit of protoplasm with a nucleus, surrounded by cytoplasm, enclosed in a
cell membrane
✔✔central nervous system - ✔✔brain and spinal cord
✔✔Cholasma (melasma) - ✔✔Brown patches of irregular shape and size of the skin.
Associated with pregnancy, menopause, or oral contraceptives
✔✔chronic disease - ✔✔an ongoing condition or illness
✔✔cicatrix (scar) - ✔✔fibrous tissue replacing normal tissues destroyed by disease or
injury
✔✔Cilia - ✔✔Eyelashes
✔✔circuit - ✔✔complete path through which electricity can flow
✔✔Ciculatory system - ✔✔Body's system of blood vessels that carry blood from heart to
all parts of the body
✔✔club hair - ✔✔Non-living hair that is detached from the hair follicle
✔✔coagulate - ✔✔thicken, clot
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔anovulatory - ✔✔without ovulation- common sign of infertility
✔✔antiseptic - ✔✔chemical used to inhibit or kill microorganisms on skin or tissue- not
the same as those used for disinfection
✔✔apocrine sweat glands - ✔✔found primarily in the armpit and genitals. Larger than
the eccrine glands- thicker secretion material than watery sweat
✔✔arrector pili muscle - ✔✔An involuntary muscle fiber attached to the underside &
base of the hair follicle- causes goose bumps
✔✔Asepsis - ✔✔Being free from infection
✔✔Asteatosis - ✔✔Dry, scaly skin from sebum deficiency
✔✔Autoclave - ✔✔apparatus for sterilizing by steam under pressure
✔✔autonomic nervous system - ✔✔nerves that control involuntary body functions of
muscles, glands, and internal organs
✔✔Bacillus - ✔✔Rod shaped bacteria
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Minute, one excelled, vegetable, organism
✔✔Bactericide - ✔✔Substance that kills bacteria
✔✔basal cell carcinoma - ✔✔Most common and least severe type of skin cancer; often
characterized by light or pearly nodules.
✔✔Benign - ✔✔Not recurrent, non malignant
✔✔benzoyl peroxide - ✔✔The active ingredient in many acne treatment products
✔✔blackhead - ✔✔comedone: plug of sebum in a pore-darkens when exposed to air
✔✔Blanching - ✔✔White color of the skin from overtreating the skin with high frequency
current
✔✔Blend method - ✔✔Use of galvanic and high frequency currents used either
superimposed in one another or sequentially
, ✔✔Bulbous - ✔✔Shaped like a bulb
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Blister containing watery fluid
✔✔Calamine - ✔✔Gives a soothing protective coating for itching dermatitis. Pink
colored antiseptic containing zinc and ferric oxide
✔✔carcinoma - ✔✔a malignant tumor that occurs in epithelial tissue and may infiltrate
local tissues
✔✔Catagen - ✔✔Transition stage of hair growth
✔✔Cataphoresis - ✔✔Use of positive electrode to force substances into the skin to stop
galvanic action and sooth the skin
✔✔Caustic - ✔✔Corrosive chemical agent - can burn or destroy living tissue
✔✔Cathode - ✔✔Negative pole in direct current
✔✔Cell - ✔✔Unit of protoplasm with a nucleus, surrounded by cytoplasm, enclosed in a
cell membrane
✔✔central nervous system - ✔✔brain and spinal cord
✔✔Cholasma (melasma) - ✔✔Brown patches of irregular shape and size of the skin.
Associated with pregnancy, menopause, or oral contraceptives
✔✔chronic disease - ✔✔an ongoing condition or illness
✔✔cicatrix (scar) - ✔✔fibrous tissue replacing normal tissues destroyed by disease or
injury
✔✔Cilia - ✔✔Eyelashes
✔✔circuit - ✔✔complete path through which electricity can flow
✔✔Ciculatory system - ✔✔Body's system of blood vessels that carry blood from heart to
all parts of the body
✔✔club hair - ✔✔Non-living hair that is detached from the hair follicle
✔✔coagulate - ✔✔thicken, clot
