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| localized thickening of the skin caused by excessive eposure to sunlight, a known precursor to cancer (actinic=ray; solar=sunlight) |
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| baldness; natural or unnatural deficiency of hair |
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| a drug that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms |
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| a drug that kills or prevents the growth of fungi |
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| a drug that relieves itching |
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| a drug that temporarily blocks transmission of nerve conduction to produce a loss of sensations (e.g., pain) |
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| graft transfer to a new position in the body of the same person (auto=self) |
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| injury to body tissue caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, radiation, or gases |
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| a burn involving only the epidermis; characterized by erythema (redness) and hyperesthesia (excessive sensation) |
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| a burn involving the epidermis and the dermis; characterized by erythema, hyperesthesia, and vesications (blisters) |
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| a burn involving all layers of the skin; characterized by the destruction of the epidermis and dermis, with damage or destruction of subcutaneous tissue |
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| treatment of malignancies, infections, and other diseases with chemical agents that destroy selected cells or impair their ability to reproduce |
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| protein substance in skin and connective tissue (koila=glue; gen=producing) |
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| cleaning; scraping a wound using a spoon like cutting instrument called curette; used for debridement |
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| limited to the skin; evidenced by characteristic rash especially on the face, neck, and scalp |
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| removal of dead tissue from a wound or burn site to promote healing and to prevent infection |
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| loss of melanin pigment in the skin |
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| surgical removal of epidermis frozen by aerosol spray using wire brushes and emery papers to remove scars, tattoos, and or wrinkles |
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| inflammation of the skin characterized by erythema, pruritus (itching), and various lesions |
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| use of an instrument heated by an electric current (cautery) to coagulate bleeding areas by burning the tissue (e.g., to sear a blood vessel) |
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| boil; a painful nodule formed in the skin by inflammation originating in a hair follicle; caused by staph |
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| an eating sore; death of tissue associated with loss of blood supply |
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| transient viral vesicle (e.g., cold sores or fever blisters) that infect the facial area, especially the mouth and nose (herpes=creeping skin disease) |
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| sexually transmitted, ulcer-like lesions of the genital and anorectal skin and mucosa; after initial infection, the virus lies dormant in the nerve cell root and may recur at times of stress |
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| a viral disease affecting the peripheral nerves characterized by painful blisters that spread over the skin following affected nerves, usually unilateral; also known as shingles (zoster=girdle) |
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| graft transfer between different species, such as from animal to human (hetero=different; xeno=strange) |
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| donor transfer between persons of the same species, such as human to human (homo=same) |
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| darkened areas of skin caused by excessive amounts of melanin |
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| areas of skin lacking color because of deficient amounts of melanin |
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| a highly contagious skin inflammation marked by pustules that rupture and become crusted, most often around the mouth and nostrils |
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| Incision and drainage (I&D) |
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| incision and drainage of an infected skin lesion (e.g., an abscess) |
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| skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, sebaceous glands |
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| malignant tumor of the walls of blood vessels, appearing as painless, dark bluish-purple plaques on the skin; often spreads to they lymph nodes and internal organs; commonly seen in patients with HIV/AIDS |
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| thickened areas of epidermis |
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| hard protein material found in the epidermis, hair, and nails |
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| surgery using a laser in various dermatologic procedures to remove lesions, scars, tattoos, etc. |
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| dark brown to black pigment contained in melanocytes |
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| inflammation of the nail fold |
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| infestation with lice that causes itching and dermatitis (pediculo=louse) |
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| an area of pathologically altered tissue; the two types of lesions are primary and secondary |
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| lesions arising from previously normal skin |
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| a flat, discolored spot on the skin up to 1 cm across (e.g., a freckle) |
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| a flat, discolored area on the skin larger than 1 cm (e.g., vitiligo) |
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| a solid mass on the skin up to 0.5 cm in diameter (e.g., a nevus [mole]) |
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| a solid mass greater than 1 cm in diameter and limited to the surface of the skin |
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| a solid mass greater than 1 cm that extends deeper into the epidermis |
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| a solid mass larger than 1-2 cm |
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| an area of localized skin edema (swelling) (e.g., a hive) |
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| little bladder; an elevated, fluid-filled sac (blister) within or under the epidermis up to 0.5 cm in diameter (e.g., a fever blister) |
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| a blister larger than 0.5 cm (e.g., a second-degree burn) (bulla=bubble) |
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| a pus-filled sac (e.g., a pimple) |
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| lesions that result in changes in primary lesions |
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| gnawed away; loss of superficial epidermis, leaving an area of moisture but no bleeding (e.g., area of moisture after rupture of a vesicle) |
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| an open sore on the skin or mucous membrane that can bleed and scar; sometimes accompanied by infection (e.g., decubitus ulcer) |
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| a linear crack in the skin |
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| a thin flake of exfoliated epidermis (e.g., dandruff) |
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| a dried residue of serum (body liquid), pus, or blood on the skin (e.g., as seen in impetigo) |
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| lesions of a blood vessel |
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| a small, round, bright red blood vessel tumor on the skin, often on the trunk of the elderly |
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| a tiny, red blood vessel lesion formed by the dilation of a group of blood vessels radiating from a central arteriole, most commonly on the face, neck, or chest (telos=end) |
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| purpura; lesions resulting from hemorrhages into the skin |
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| spot; reddish-brown, minute hemorrhagic spots on the skin that indicate a bleeding tendency; a small purpura |
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| bruise; a black and blue mark; a large purpura (chymo=juice) |
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| a mark left by the healing of a sore or wound, showing the replacement of destroyed tissue by fibrous tissue (cicatrix=scar) |
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| an abnormal overgrowth of scar tissue that is thick and irregular (kele=tumor) |
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| skin tumors arising from the epidermis |
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| a congenital malformation on the skin that can be epidermal or vascular; also called a mole |
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| a mole with precancerous changes |
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| an epidermal tumor caused by a papilloma virus, also called a wart |
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| itching; a chronic recurrent skin disease marked by silvery sclaes covering red patches, papules, and/or plaques on the skin that result from overproduction and thickening of skin cells; common sites of involvement are the elbows, knees, genitals, arms, legs, scalp, and nails |
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| treatment of neoplastic disease using ionizing radiation to deter the proliferation of malignant cells |
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| a contagious disease caused by a parasite (mite) that invades the skin, causing an intense itch, most often at articulations between the fingers or toes, elbow, etc. (scabo=to scratch) |
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| use of sclerosing agents in treating diseases (e.g., injection of a saline solution into a dilated blood vessel tumor in the skin, resulting in hardening of the tissue within and eventual sloughing away of the lesion) |
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| a skin condition marked by the hypersecretion of sebum from the sebaceous glands |
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| oily substance secreted by the sebaceous glands |
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| transfer of skin from one body site to another to replace skin that has been lost through a burn or injury |
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| sweat glands (sudor=sweat; ferre=to bear) |
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| a group of fungal skin diseases identified by the body part affected, including tinea corporis (body), commonly called ringworm, and tinea pedis (foot), also called athlete's foot |
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| use of ultraviolet life to promote healing of a skin lesion |
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| hives; an eruption of wheals on the skin accompanied by itching (urtica=stinging nettle) |
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