Health Assessment - Skin, Hair, Nails
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1. Alopecia: Baldness; hair loss
2. Annular: circular shape to skin lesion
3. Bulla: elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter
4. Confluent: skin lesions that run together
5. Crust: thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst or dry up
6. Cyanosis: dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes as a result of increased amount of nonoxygenated
hemoglobin
7. Erosion: scooped out, shallow depression in skin
8. Erythema: intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or
inflammation
9. Excoriation: self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
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10. Fissure: linear crack in skin extending into dermis
11. Furuncle: boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle
12. Hemangioma: skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis
13. Iris: target shape of skin lesion
14. Jaundice: yellow color to skin, palate, & sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
15. Keloid: hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury
16. Lichenification: tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching
17. Lipoma: benign fatty tumor
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1. Alopecia: Baldness; hair loss
2. Annular: circular shape to skin lesion
3. Bulla: elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter
4. Confluent: skin lesions that run together
5. Crust: thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst or dry up
6. Cyanosis: dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes as a result of increased amount of nonoxygenated
hemoglobin
7. Erosion: scooped out, shallow depression in skin
8. Erythema: intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or
inflammation
9. Excoriation: self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
1/5
, Health Assessment - Skin, Hair, Nails
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_1jl8bo
10. Fissure: linear crack in skin extending into dermis
11. Furuncle: boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle
12. Hemangioma: skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis
13. Iris: target shape of skin lesion
14. Jaundice: yellow color to skin, palate, & sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
15. Keloid: hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury
16. Lichenification: tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching
17. Lipoma: benign fatty tumor
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