Quiz 2 NUR 188 Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update 2025-2026
Alopecia - Answers (baldness) hair loss
Confluent - Answers skin lesions that run together
Cyanosis - Answers dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of
unoxygenated hemoglobin
Erythema - Answers intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial
capillaries, as in fever or inflammation
Jaundice - Answers yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
Macule - Answers flat skin lesion with only a color change
Pallor - Answers excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin
Papule - Answers palpable skin lesion, <1 cm diameter
Plaque - Answers skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together
Pruritus - Answers itching
Purpura - Answers red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels
Pustule - Answers elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid
Ulcer - Answers sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in
skin, extending into dermis
Vesicle - Answers elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm diameter
Alveoli - Answers functional units of the lung; the thin-walled chambers surrounded by networks
of capillaries that are the site of respiratory exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen
Angle of Louis - Answers manubriosternal angle, the articulation of the manubrium and body of
the sternum, continuous with the second rib
Apnea - Answers cessation of breathing
Atelectasis - Answers an abnormal respiratory condition characterized by collapsed, shrunken,
deflated sections of alveoli
Bradypnea - Answers slow breathing, fewer than 10 breaths per minute, regular rate
Bronchiole - Answers one of the smaller respiratory passageways into which the segmental
bronchi divide
Alopecia - Answers (baldness) hair loss
Confluent - Answers skin lesions that run together
Cyanosis - Answers dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of
unoxygenated hemoglobin
Erythema - Answers intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial
capillaries, as in fever or inflammation
Jaundice - Answers yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
Macule - Answers flat skin lesion with only a color change
Pallor - Answers excessively pale, whitish pink color to lightly pigmented skin
Papule - Answers palpable skin lesion, <1 cm diameter
Plaque - Answers skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together
Pruritus - Answers itching
Purpura - Answers red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels
Pustule - Answers elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid
Ulcer - Answers sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in
skin, extending into dermis
Vesicle - Answers elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm diameter
Alveoli - Answers functional units of the lung; the thin-walled chambers surrounded by networks
of capillaries that are the site of respiratory exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen
Angle of Louis - Answers manubriosternal angle, the articulation of the manubrium and body of
the sternum, continuous with the second rib
Apnea - Answers cessation of breathing
Atelectasis - Answers an abnormal respiratory condition characterized by collapsed, shrunken,
deflated sections of alveoli
Bradypnea - Answers slow breathing, fewer than 10 breaths per minute, regular rate
Bronchiole - Answers one of the smaller respiratory passageways into which the segmental
bronchi divide
