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| What does the hair bulb contain? |
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| What does the hair papilla consist of? |
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| Sweat glands. They secrete a clear odorless fluid |
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| Usually open onto the hair folicle. They secrete a milky sweat that causes odor. |
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| How does the subcutaneous tissue help us? |
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| It helps regulate heat and it provides nutrients |
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| pseudomonia's of the nail |
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| Cause a green, black or brown discoloration of the nail with thickening or crumbling of the nail bed. |
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| What do yeast infections look like on the nail? |
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| Nail bed will turn white and separation from the nail plate can occur. |
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| Loss of color. Seen in arterial insufficiency. Check the schlera, lips, tongue, buccal mucosa, nail beds, and palms for a ashen color. |
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| Causes skin to appear blue tinged esp in the nialbeds and conjunctivial areas. |
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| How can you differentiate central cyanosis from peripheral cyanosis? |
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| Look for central cyanosis in the oral mucosa. |
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| Blue tint in fingers or extremities due to inadequate circulation. |
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| What is central cyanosis? |
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| Results from cardiopulmonary problem |
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| Yellow skin, esp. in the sclera, oral mucosa, and palms. |
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| Roughening and darkening of the skin in localized areas eso the posterior neck. Suggest diabetes mellitus. [image][image] |
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| A foul odor may suggest...? |
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| A disorder of the sweat glands or poor hygene |
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| What is characterized by a butterfly rash across the bridge of the nose? |
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| discoid lupus eryematosus |
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| Melanin is common with what skin color? |
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| Carotene is found in what skin color? |
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| Skin redness and warmth. It is found in allergic reactions, trauma, and inflammation |
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| Patchy white skin. Found typically in people of color. Uncle Scott. |
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| A warty or crusted region of a pigmented lesion |
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| Raised yellow papules with a depressed center |
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| Small red, raised spots. Typically found with the aging |
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| What do you do if you suspect a fungus? |
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| Shine a woods light. Blue green flourencence indicates a fungal infection |
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| What type of skin is seen in hypothyroidism? |
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| VERY thin skin can be found in? |
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| Clients with arterial insufficiency or those on steroid therapy. |
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| Excess sweating. Is common with hyperthyroidism |
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| What skin type is common with hypotension? |
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| Very cold skin could mean? |
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| Shock, hypotension, and arterial disease. |
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| Why are older clients skin dryer? |
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| Because as you age, sebum production decreases |
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| How easily the skin can be pinched |
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| refers to the skins elasticity and how quickly the skin returns to it's original state. |
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| Decreased mobility can be seen in...? |
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| Decreased turgur of 30 seconds can indicate? |
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| It can indicate dehydration |
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| Swelling relating to the accumilation of fluid in the tissue |
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| Coppor red hair in African Americans can indicate? |
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| Scalp ring worm. A fungal disease with characteristic pustules on the scalp |
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| Excessive scaliness of the scalp |
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| What is the name of infections of the hair follicle? |
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| Folliculitis. Pustules surrounded by erythemia |
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| Early and late clubbing can result from...? |
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| Is a direct results from acute illnes and will eventually grow out |
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| Thickened toenails could indicate...? |
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| A decrease in circulation |
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| Inflmmation, indicates an infection |
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| Detachment of nail bed from nail plate |
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| <1 cm. Flat. Circumscribed border |
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| >1 cm. Flat. May have an irregular border |
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| What are some examples of a macule or patch? |
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| Freckles, flat moles, petechiae, rubella, vitiligo, port wine stains, ecchymosis |
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| Elevated. palpable. solid mass. circumscribed border |
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| <.5 cm, raised. Elevated moles. Warts. Litchen planus. |
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| >.5 cm. raised. Psoriasis. Actinic keratosis. |
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| Elevated, solid, palpable mass. Extends into the dermis |
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| .5-2.0 cm's. circumscribed. Lipoma. Squamous cell carcinoma. Poorly absorbed injection. dermatofibroma. |
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| > 1-2 cm's. Does not always have a definable border. Larger limpoma. Carcinoma. |
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| Contains serious fluid. Circumscribed elevated mass. |
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| <.5 cm's. Herpes. Varicella. Poison ivy. second degree burns |
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| >.5 cm's. Pemphigus, contact dermatitis. large burn blisters. Bullus impetigo. Poison Ivy. |
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| Elevated mass with transiet borders. irregular. Size and color vary. Caused by serious fluid moving to dermis. Insect bites. Urticaria. |
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| Pus filled vesicle. Acne. Impetigo. Furuncles. Carbuncles. |
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| Fluid filled capsules usually found in the subcutaneous tissue or the dermis. |
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| circular lesion with a central clearing like crator. |
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| circular and annular with central activity. |
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| Inertriginous distribution |
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| Where skin comes in contact with itself |
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| Limited to areas exposed to the sun or air. |
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| Disbursed either densely or widely |
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| Limited to a specific area |
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| Regionalized distribution |
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| Limited to one area of the body |
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| Distributed all over the body |
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| Can indicate trauma or can be associated with metabolic stress. It looks like white lines on the nail |
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| Mites that burrow under the skin and cause lesions. Appear in a straight or a zig zag line. |
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| A group of bright red vessicles that occur a long a nerve root. Vessicles are unlateral and appear mostly on the bodies trunk. Causes pain |
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| Dermatomal configurations |
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| Lesions that form a line along a dermatome |
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| The lesions are so cose togther that you can't identify individual lesions. |
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| lesions are grouped together into individual groups |
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| Individual lesions are separate and distinct |
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| lesion goes in a straight line like a scratch or a streak |
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| Zosteriform configuration |
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| Linear lesions clustered along a a nerve route |
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| Circular lesions that tend to run together |
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| What does pitting of the nail suggest? |
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| Swelling of the skin that surrounds the nail. It is a sign of a local infection |
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| Red or purple macules. 1-2 mm. Associated with bleeding tendencies. Emboli of the skin. |
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| Round or irregular macula region. much larger than petechia. black, yellow, and green hues. Associated with trauma and bleeding tendencies. |
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| How is a hematoma related to ecchhymosis? |
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| A hematoma is an elevated ecchymosis |
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| red arteriole lesion. rare to find it bellow the waist. Associated with liver disease, pregnancy, and vitamin b deficiency |
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| Spider like vein shape. Blue or red color. Will NOT blanch when pressue is put on it. Associated with increased venous pressure states |
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| The wearing down of the epidermis of skin due to friction. Can result in bleeding or weeping of serous fluid |
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| A usually benign tumor consisting primarily of blood vessels and lymphocytes |
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| decreasing in size or wasting away of a particular body part or tissue |
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| flowing or coming together |
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| The escape of blood into the tissues from ruptured blood vessels resulting in black/blue/ or purple spots on the body |
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| the superficial destruction of a surface area |
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| A usually benign tumor made up of blood vessels which commonly results in elevation of the skin |
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| A mass of clotted blood that forms in an organ, tissue, or organ space as a result of a broken blood vessel |
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| a thick scar resulting from the excessive growth of fibrous tissue. Common with radiation burns and regular burns. |
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| A disease of the skin marked by excessive hornyness of the skin |
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| A process by which the skin becomes hardened and leatherly due to skin irritation |
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| Localized itching due to irritation of the sensory nerves |
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| reults from a hemorrhagic stage resulting in purple coloring |
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