ELECTROLYSIS IBEC FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔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
✔✔Comedome - ✔✔Blackhead
✔✔Conductor - ✔✔Material that will conduct electrical current
✔✔congenital - ✔✔existing at birth
✔✔contagious - ✔✔Able to be passed easily from one person to another.
✔✔contamination - ✔✔Soiling or making inferior by contact or mixture such as the
introduction of organisms in a would
✔✔Converter - ✔✔An electrical device for converting direct current to alternating current
✔✔Corium (cutis) - ✔✔"True skin" or dermis- layer under the epidermis consisting of
connective tissue and contains nerves and terminal organs of sensation, also hair like
roots and sebaceous and sweat glands
✔✔corpuscle - ✔✔blood cell
✔✔Cortex - ✔✔Middle layer of the hair shaft that provides strength; comprises most of
the hair mass
, ✔✔corticosteroid - ✔✔Steroids produced by adrenal cortex (cortisol, corticosteroid,
adolsterone)
✔✔cortisone - ✔✔Hormone produced by the adrenal
✔✔Cushing's syndrome - ✔✔Over secretion of adrenal cortex, too much hormone, too
much steroid- causes obesity, thin skin, excess hair, muscle weakness
✔✔dermal papilla - ✔✔Elevation of the projecting corium under the surface of a hair
bulb- contains capillaries which gives hair nourishment
✔✔Dermis - ✔✔Layer of skin under the epidermis
✔✔Diabetic - ✔✔Insufficient insulin production
✔✔diathermy - ✔✔generation of heat in body tissues through high-frequency electric
current
✔✔direct current - ✔✔a flow of electric charge in only one direction
✔✔disease - ✔✔illness characterized by a recognizable set of signs and symptoms
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔destroying harmful microorganisms- chemical or physical agent
that is applied to inanimate objects
✔✔Distorted hair follicle - ✔✔Follicle that may have been damaged from a previous
even or naturally bent out of shape
✔✔dry heat sterilization - ✔✔Forced air oven-type device to sterilize items by exposure
to high temperatures
✔✔Dysmenorrhea - ✔✔Painful menstruation
✔✔eccrine sweat glands - ✔✔secrete sweat that cools body
✔✔Ecchymosis - ✔✔A bruise-superficial bleeding under the skin
✔✔eczema - ✔✔Superficial inflammatory process involving the epidermis - causes crust
and pigment changes
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Abnormal accumulation of fluid in cells - causes swelling
✔✔electrocoagulation - ✔✔Coagulation of tissue by means of a high frequency
electrical current
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔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
✔✔Comedome - ✔✔Blackhead
✔✔Conductor - ✔✔Material that will conduct electrical current
✔✔congenital - ✔✔existing at birth
✔✔contagious - ✔✔Able to be passed easily from one person to another.
✔✔contamination - ✔✔Soiling or making inferior by contact or mixture such as the
introduction of organisms in a would
✔✔Converter - ✔✔An electrical device for converting direct current to alternating current
✔✔Corium (cutis) - ✔✔"True skin" or dermis- layer under the epidermis consisting of
connective tissue and contains nerves and terminal organs of sensation, also hair like
roots and sebaceous and sweat glands
✔✔corpuscle - ✔✔blood cell
✔✔Cortex - ✔✔Middle layer of the hair shaft that provides strength; comprises most of
the hair mass
, ✔✔corticosteroid - ✔✔Steroids produced by adrenal cortex (cortisol, corticosteroid,
adolsterone)
✔✔cortisone - ✔✔Hormone produced by the adrenal
✔✔Cushing's syndrome - ✔✔Over secretion of adrenal cortex, too much hormone, too
much steroid- causes obesity, thin skin, excess hair, muscle weakness
✔✔dermal papilla - ✔✔Elevation of the projecting corium under the surface of a hair
bulb- contains capillaries which gives hair nourishment
✔✔Dermis - ✔✔Layer of skin under the epidermis
✔✔Diabetic - ✔✔Insufficient insulin production
✔✔diathermy - ✔✔generation of heat in body tissues through high-frequency electric
current
✔✔direct current - ✔✔a flow of electric charge in only one direction
✔✔disease - ✔✔illness characterized by a recognizable set of signs and symptoms
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔destroying harmful microorganisms- chemical or physical agent
that is applied to inanimate objects
✔✔Distorted hair follicle - ✔✔Follicle that may have been damaged from a previous
even or naturally bent out of shape
✔✔dry heat sterilization - ✔✔Forced air oven-type device to sterilize items by exposure
to high temperatures
✔✔Dysmenorrhea - ✔✔Painful menstruation
✔✔eccrine sweat glands - ✔✔secrete sweat that cools body
✔✔Ecchymosis - ✔✔A bruise-superficial bleeding under the skin
✔✔eczema - ✔✔Superficial inflammatory process involving the epidermis - causes crust
and pigment changes
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Abnormal accumulation of fluid in cells - causes swelling
✔✔electrocoagulation - ✔✔Coagulation of tissue by means of a high frequency
electrical current
