Exam Integumentary
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Rhonda_Garnick on December 15, 2009
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Sebum |  neccary for lubricating the hair and keeping the skin soft and waterproof |
| Lunula | a crescent shaped white area nearest the root of the nail |
| Lanugo | soft downy hair which almost covers the developing fetus |
| Cuticle | the fold of skin at the base of the nail body |
| Basal cell carcinoma | most common form of skin cancer |
| Impetigo | a contagious superficial skin infection caused by staph or strep infection, usually forming on the face and is very common in children |
| Dermis | aka; corium, true skin, nerves & blood, inner thicker layer of the skin |
| Corium | aka; dermis |
| Epidermis | outer layer of the skin contains no blood or nerve supply |
| Keloid | elevated scar that forms due to the presents of large amounts of collagen during the formation of the scar |
| Subcutaneous | this layer lies beneath the dermis, made of loose connective tissue and adipose tissue |
| Melanocytes | provides color to the skin and the pretection from the UV rays |
| Stria | aka; stretch marks, tear in the dermis |
| Sebacceous glands | aka ; oil gland, located in the dermis |
| Sudoriferous glands | aka; sweat gland |
| Ceruminous glands | modified sweat gland, lubricates the ear canal with ear wax |
| Albinism | absence of pigment in skin, hair, eyes |
| Wood's lamp | an ultraviolet light used to examine the sclap and skin for the pupose of observing fungal spores |
| Tinea | aka; ringworm, chronic fungal infection of the skin, scaling, itching, and sometimes painful lesions |
| Tinea Capitis | scalp |
| Tinea corporis | body |
| Tinea cruris | groin |
| Tinea pedis | foot |
| Ringworm | aka; Tinea |
| Scabies | human itch mite, highly contagious parasitic infestation |
| Itch mite | aka; scabies |
| Burns | tissue injury |
| Viral Exanthematous | viral disease, skin eruption or rash accompanied by inflammation |
| Malignant melanoma | skin tumor orignated from melanocytes in preexisting nevil, freckles, or skin with pigment. Darkly pigmented cancerous tumor with irregular surfaces and borders |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | malignancy of the suamous or scale-like cell of epithelial tissue, and is a fast growing cancer that has a greater potential for metastasis, progressive and invasive |
| Keratosis | thickening and overgrowth of the comified epithelium |
| Seborrheic Keratosis | brown or waxy yellow wart like lesions that are loosely attached to the skin, aka; senile warts |
| Actinic Keratosis | premalignant gray or red to brown hardened lesion caused by excessive exposure to sunlight, aka; solar keratosis |
| Wart | aka; verruea, a benign circumscribed elevated skin lesion that results from hypertrophy of the epidermis caused by the HPV |
| Verruca | aka; wart |
| Acne vulgaris | common inflammatory disorder seen on the face chest and neck, typically begins during adolescence, appears as papules, pustules, and comedos, aka; acne |
| Pediculosis | highly contagious parasitic infestation caused by blood sucking lice |
| Pediculosis Capitis | head lice |
| Pediculosis Corporis | body lice |
| Pediculosis Palpebrarum | eyelashes and eyelids lice |
| Pediculosis Pubis | pubic hair lice |
| Pemphigus | rare incurable disorder manifested by blisters in the mouth and on the skin, spreads to invovle large areas of the body |
| Onychomycosis | fungal infection of the nails, becomes opaque, white, thickened and firable |
| Nevus | aka; mole, visual accumulation of melanocytes creating a flat or raised rounded macule or papule with defined borders |
| Pruritus | itching |
| Herpes Zoster | aka; shingle, acute viral infection characterized by painful vesicular eruptions on the skin that follow along nerve pathways of underlying spinal or cranial nerves |
| Eczema | acute or chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by erythema papules, vesicles, pustules, scales, crusts, scabs and itching |
| Rubella | exanthematous viral disease(german measles) a mild febrile infectous disease |
| Roseola | a viral disease with sudden onset of a high fever for 3-4 days |
| Rubeola | acute highly communicable viral disease |
| 5th Disease | viral disease, cheeks looked slapped, fiery red cheeks |
| Sytemic Lupus Erythematosus | a chronic multisystem, inflammatory connective tissue disease characterize by lesions of the vervous system and skin, renal problems and vasculitis in which immune complexes are formed from the reaction of SLE auto anti bodies and their correspondiing antegens, butterfly rash on nose and face |
| Cerumen | aka; ear wax, protects and lubricates the ear |
| Keratin | a hard water repellant protein , waterproofing the body |
| Alopecia | hair los or male patter baldness |
| Hyperkeratosis | an overgrowth of the horny layer of the epidermis |
| Gangrene | tissue death due to loss of adequate blood supply, dry or wet. |
| Necrosis | dead tissue, blackened requires debridedment or amputation |
| Leukoplakis | white, hard thickened patches firmly attached to the mucous membrane, in mouth vulva or penis |
| Kaposi's Sarcoma | rare malignant lesions begining as soft purple brown nodules or plaques on the feet gradually spreads through skin increased incedence in men with AIDS, diabetes, malignant lymphoma |
| Dermatitis | inflammation of the dermis |
| Psoriasis | common noninfectious chronic skin disorder, silvery white scales |
| Callus | a common unusually painless thickeding of the epidermis at sites of external pressure or friction |
| Shingles | aka; herpes zoster, acute viral infection |
| Chicken pox | aka; varicella |
| Fulguration | a technique using an electrical spark to burn and destroy tissue, used primarily for the removal of surface lesions, Electrodessication |
| Cautery | coagulation of tissue |
| Escharotomy | an incision made into the necrotic tissue resulting from a severe burn |
| Skin layers | epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous |
| Accessory structures | hair, nails, glands |
| 1st degree burn | superficial, redness, pain, and swelling, 3-6 days healing, |
| 2nd degree burn | partial thickness, blistering, very sensitive and painful, heal in 2wks, |
| 3rd degree burn | full thickness, black or brown in appearance, massive necrosis, grafting required |
| Epidermis | outer layer, no blood supply or nerves, squamous epithelial cells, 5 different layers of stratified epithelium |
| Corium | inner thicker layer, true skin, contains blood supply and nerves, protect the body against mechanical injury |
| Subcutaneous | beneath the dermis, largely of loose connective tissue and adipose tissue, serves as insulation for body, rich in nerves and nerve endings, major blood vessels |
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