INTEGRATION (NU240) EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
senile legitines - ✔✔dark-yellow or brown spots that develop on the skin as aging
occurs, liver spots
seborrheic keratosis - ✔✔a benign skin growth that has a waxy or "pasted on" look
actinic (senile or solar) keratosis - ✔✔red-tan scaly plaques that increase over the years
to become raised and roughened, premalignant
acrochordons - ✔✔"skin tags"; overgrowths of normal skin that form a stalk and are
polyp-like
sebaceous hyperplasia - ✔✔raised yellow papules with a central depression
annular - ✔✔circular shape to skin lesion (think ringworm)
confluent - ✔✔lesions run together
discrete - ✔✔unconnected; separate; distinct
gyrate - ✔✔twisted, coiled spiral, snakelike
grouped - ✔✔clusters of lesions
linear - ✔✔a scratch, streak, line, or stripe
target - ✔✔resembles iris of eye, concentric rings of color in lesions
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, zosteriform - ✔✔linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
polycyclic - ✔✔linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
macule - ✔✔flat, colored spot on the skin, less than 1 cm
papule - ✔✔small, solid skin elevation
patch - ✔✔a flat, discolored area on the skin larger than 1 cm
plaque - ✔✔papules coalesce to form surface elevation wider than 1 cm
nodule - ✔✔solid, round or oval elevated lesion 1 cm or more in diameter, may extend
deeper into dermis than papule
tumor - ✔✔larger than a few centimeters in diameter, firm or soft, deeper into dermis;
may be benign or malignant
wheal - ✔✔superficial, raised, transient, and erythematous; slightly irregular shape
from edema
urticaria (hives) - ✔✔wheals coalesce to form extensive reaction, intensely pruritic
vesicle - ✔✔elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter
bulla - ✔✔a large blister that is usually more than 1 cm in diameter, thin walled and
ruptures easily
cyst - ✔✔Encapsulated fluid-filled or semi-solid mass in the subcutaneous tissue or
dermis
pustule - ✔✔Turbid fluid (pus) in the cavity. Circumscribed and elevated.
excoriation - ✔✔Skin sore or abrasion produced by scratching or scraping
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
senile legitines - ✔✔dark-yellow or brown spots that develop on the skin as aging
occurs, liver spots
seborrheic keratosis - ✔✔a benign skin growth that has a waxy or "pasted on" look
actinic (senile or solar) keratosis - ✔✔red-tan scaly plaques that increase over the years
to become raised and roughened, premalignant
acrochordons - ✔✔"skin tags"; overgrowths of normal skin that form a stalk and are
polyp-like
sebaceous hyperplasia - ✔✔raised yellow papules with a central depression
annular - ✔✔circular shape to skin lesion (think ringworm)
confluent - ✔✔lesions run together
discrete - ✔✔unconnected; separate; distinct
gyrate - ✔✔twisted, coiled spiral, snakelike
grouped - ✔✔clusters of lesions
linear - ✔✔a scratch, streak, line, or stripe
target - ✔✔resembles iris of eye, concentric rings of color in lesions
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, zosteriform - ✔✔linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
polycyclic - ✔✔linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
macule - ✔✔flat, colored spot on the skin, less than 1 cm
papule - ✔✔small, solid skin elevation
patch - ✔✔a flat, discolored area on the skin larger than 1 cm
plaque - ✔✔papules coalesce to form surface elevation wider than 1 cm
nodule - ✔✔solid, round or oval elevated lesion 1 cm or more in diameter, may extend
deeper into dermis than papule
tumor - ✔✔larger than a few centimeters in diameter, firm or soft, deeper into dermis;
may be benign or malignant
wheal - ✔✔superficial, raised, transient, and erythematous; slightly irregular shape
from edema
urticaria (hives) - ✔✔wheals coalesce to form extensive reaction, intensely pruritic
vesicle - ✔✔elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter
bulla - ✔✔a large blister that is usually more than 1 cm in diameter, thin walled and
ruptures easily
cyst - ✔✔Encapsulated fluid-filled or semi-solid mass in the subcutaneous tissue or
dermis
pustule - ✔✔Turbid fluid (pus) in the cavity. Circumscribed and elevated.
excoriation - ✔✔Skin sore or abrasion produced by scratching or scraping
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