NY STATE WAXING EVALUATION EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Universal Precaution with blood and body fluids - ✔✔Guidelines set by the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that requires that all employers/employees
should assume that all human blood and body fluids are infectious
✔✔Healthy Skin - ✔✔Body's first line of defense
✔✔Anatomy - ✔✔The study of the structure of the human body that can be seen with
the naked eye
✔✔Physiology - ✔✔The Study of the functions and activities performed by the body
structures
✔✔Histology - ✔✔The study of the science of the microscopic structure of organic
tissues, microscopic anatomy
✔✔Dermatology - ✔✔The Study of Disease of the skin - particularly the face
✔✔Pathology - ✔✔The study of Blood
✔✔Etiology - ✔✔The study of causes of diseases
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔The recognition of a disease from its symptoms
✔✔Prognosis - ✔✔The foretelling of the probable course of a disease
✔✔Symptoms - ✔✔signs of disease
✔✔Subjective symptoms - ✔✔Symptoms which can be felt, itching, burning, or pain
✔✔Objective symptoms - ✔✔Symptoms which cannot be seen, pimples, pustules or
inflammation
✔✔Lesions - ✔✔A structural change in the tissue caused by injury or disease
✔✔Primary Lesions - ✔✔Flat, non-palpable changes in skin color elevation caused by
fluid
✔✔Secondary Lesions - ✔✔Develop in later stages of an injury or disease
✔✔Macule - ✔✔Small, discolored patch or spot on the surface of the skin, neither
raised nor sunken (Freckles)
, ✔✔Papule - ✔✔Small, elevated pimple in the skin containing no fluid, which can
develop pus later on
✔✔Pustule - ✔✔Large elevated pimple with an inflamed base containing pus
✔✔Wheal - ✔✔Itchy, swollen lesion caused by a bite or allergy (insect bite)
✔✔Vesicle - ✔✔Small blister containing clear fluid (herpes simplex, chicken pox)
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Large blister containing watery fluid (second degree burn, foot blister)
✔✔Tumor - ✔✔Abnormal cell mass resulting from excess cell growth varying in size,
shape and color
✔✔Scale - ✔✔Flaky skin cells, accumulating of epidermal flakes (dandruff)
✔✔Crust - ✔✔Dead cells formed over a wound while healing resulting in accumulating
serum and pus (scab)
✔✔Fissure - ✔✔A crack in the skin penetrating the dermis
✔✔Excoriation - ✔✔A skin sore or abrasion produced by scratching or scraping
✔✔Scar - ✔✔Formation after the healing of an injury or skin condition that has
penetrated the dermis (surgery scar)
✔✔Keloid - ✔✔A thick scar resulting from excessive growth of fibrous tissue (collagen)
✔✔Ulcer - ✔✔An open lesion on the skin or mucous membrane of the body
accompanied by pus and loss of skin depth; death of a tissue
✔✔Acne - ✔✔Chronic inflammatory skin disorder of the sebaceous gland with
comedones and blemishes; also referred to as acne simplex or acne vulgaris
✔✔Rosacea - ✔✔Chronic inflammatory congestion of the cheeks and nose;
characterized by redness, dilation of the blood vessels, formation of papules and
pustules; referred to acne rosacea
✔✔Steatoma - ✔✔Sebaceous cyst or subcutaneous tumor ranging in size from a pea to
an orange on the scalp, neck and back
✔✔Asteatosis - ✔✔Dry, scaly skin from sebum deficiency, due to aging body disorders,
alkalies of harsh soaps or cold exposure
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Universal Precaution with blood and body fluids - ✔✔Guidelines set by the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that requires that all employers/employees
should assume that all human blood and body fluids are infectious
✔✔Healthy Skin - ✔✔Body's first line of defense
✔✔Anatomy - ✔✔The study of the structure of the human body that can be seen with
the naked eye
✔✔Physiology - ✔✔The Study of the functions and activities performed by the body
structures
✔✔Histology - ✔✔The study of the science of the microscopic structure of organic
tissues, microscopic anatomy
✔✔Dermatology - ✔✔The Study of Disease of the skin - particularly the face
✔✔Pathology - ✔✔The study of Blood
✔✔Etiology - ✔✔The study of causes of diseases
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔The recognition of a disease from its symptoms
✔✔Prognosis - ✔✔The foretelling of the probable course of a disease
✔✔Symptoms - ✔✔signs of disease
✔✔Subjective symptoms - ✔✔Symptoms which can be felt, itching, burning, or pain
✔✔Objective symptoms - ✔✔Symptoms which cannot be seen, pimples, pustules or
inflammation
✔✔Lesions - ✔✔A structural change in the tissue caused by injury or disease
✔✔Primary Lesions - ✔✔Flat, non-palpable changes in skin color elevation caused by
fluid
✔✔Secondary Lesions - ✔✔Develop in later stages of an injury or disease
✔✔Macule - ✔✔Small, discolored patch or spot on the surface of the skin, neither
raised nor sunken (Freckles)
, ✔✔Papule - ✔✔Small, elevated pimple in the skin containing no fluid, which can
develop pus later on
✔✔Pustule - ✔✔Large elevated pimple with an inflamed base containing pus
✔✔Wheal - ✔✔Itchy, swollen lesion caused by a bite or allergy (insect bite)
✔✔Vesicle - ✔✔Small blister containing clear fluid (herpes simplex, chicken pox)
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Large blister containing watery fluid (second degree burn, foot blister)
✔✔Tumor - ✔✔Abnormal cell mass resulting from excess cell growth varying in size,
shape and color
✔✔Scale - ✔✔Flaky skin cells, accumulating of epidermal flakes (dandruff)
✔✔Crust - ✔✔Dead cells formed over a wound while healing resulting in accumulating
serum and pus (scab)
✔✔Fissure - ✔✔A crack in the skin penetrating the dermis
✔✔Excoriation - ✔✔A skin sore or abrasion produced by scratching or scraping
✔✔Scar - ✔✔Formation after the healing of an injury or skin condition that has
penetrated the dermis (surgery scar)
✔✔Keloid - ✔✔A thick scar resulting from excessive growth of fibrous tissue (collagen)
✔✔Ulcer - ✔✔An open lesion on the skin or mucous membrane of the body
accompanied by pus and loss of skin depth; death of a tissue
✔✔Acne - ✔✔Chronic inflammatory skin disorder of the sebaceous gland with
comedones and blemishes; also referred to as acne simplex or acne vulgaris
✔✔Rosacea - ✔✔Chronic inflammatory congestion of the cheeks and nose;
characterized by redness, dilation of the blood vessels, formation of papules and
pustules; referred to acne rosacea
✔✔Steatoma - ✔✔Sebaceous cyst or subcutaneous tumor ranging in size from a pea to
an orange on the scalp, neck and back
✔✔Asteatosis - ✔✔Dry, scaly skin from sebum deficiency, due to aging body disorders,
alkalies of harsh soaps or cold exposure
