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| consists of the skin and its accessory organs: the hair, nails, sebaceous glands, and sweat glands |
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| horny tissue; hard; cornea |
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| abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
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| scraping, or rubbing away of a surface, such as skin, by friction |
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| localized collection of pus at the site of an infection (characteristically a staphylococcal infection) |
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| abscess that originates in a hair follicle; AKA a boil |
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| cluster of furuncles in the subcutaneous tissue |
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| inflammatory disease of sebaceous follicles of the skin, marked by comedos (blackheads), papules, and pustules |
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| absence or loss of hair, especially of the head; AKA baldness |
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| discolored, dried sebum plugging an excretory duct of the skin; AKA blackhead |
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| closed sac or pouch in or under the skin with a definite wall that contains fluid, semifluid, or solid material |
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| a cyst filled with sebum (fatty material) from a sebaceous gland |
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| redness of the skin caused by swelling of the capillaries |
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| loss of a large amount of blood in a short period, externally or internally |
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| hemorrhage of any size under the skin in which the skin is not broken; AKA a bruise |
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| skin discoloration consisting of a large, irregularly formed hemorrhagic area with colors changing from blue-black to greenish brown or yellow; commonly called a bruise |
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| minute, pinpoint hemorrhagic spot of the skin |
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| elevated, localized collection of blood trapped under the skin that usually results from trauma |
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| condition characterized by excessive growth of hair or presence of hair in unusual places, especially in women |
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| bacterial skin infection characterized by isolated pustules that become crusted and rupture |
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| chronic skin disease characterized by itchy red patches covered with silvery scales |
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| contagious skin disease transmitted by the itch mite |
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| areas of pathologically altered tissue caused by disease, injury, or a wound due to external factors or internal disease |
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| initial reaction to pathologically altered tissue that may be flat or elevated |
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| result from the changes that take place in the primary lesion due to infection, scratching, trauma, or various stages of a disease |
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| fungal infection whose name commonly indicates the body part affected; AKA ringworm |
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| lesion of the skin or mucous membranes marked by inflammation, necrosis, and sloughing of damaged tissues |
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| skin ulceration caused by prolonged pressure, usually in a person who is bedridden, AKA decubitus ulcer or bedsore |
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| allergic reaction of the skin characterized by eruption of pale-red elevated patches that are intensely itchy; AKA wheals or hives |
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| rounded epidermal growths caused by a virus; AKA a wart |
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| localized loss of skin pigmentation characterized by milk-white patches; AKA leukoderma |
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| removal of a small piece of living tissue from an organ or other part of the body for microscopic examination to confirm or establish a diagnosis, estimate prognosis, or follow the course of a disease |
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| method for determining induced sensitivity (allergy) by applying or inoculating a suspected allergen or sensitizer into the skin and determining sensitivity (allergy) to the specific antigen by an inflammatory skin reaction to it |
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| use of subfreezing temperature, commonly with liquid nitrogen, to destroy abnormal tissue cells, such as unwanted, cancerous, or infected tissue |
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| treatment that involves removal of foreign material and dead or damaged tissue, especially in a wound, and is used to promote healing and prevent infection |
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| process in which high-frequency electrical sparks are used to dehydrate and destroy diseased tissue |
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| incision and drainage (I&D) |
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| incision of a legion, such as an abscess, followed by the drainage of its contents |
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| surgical procedure to transplant healthy tissue by applying it to an injured site |
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| transplantation of healthy tissue from one person to another person; AKA homograft |
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| transplantation of healthy tissue from one site to another site in the same individual |
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| transplantation of artificial skin produced from collagen fibers arranged in a lattice pattern |
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| transplantation (dermis only) from a foreign donor (usually a pig) and transferred to a human; AKA heterograft |
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| procedure that repairs damaged skin, acne scars, fine or deep wrinkles, or tattoos or improves skin tone irregularities through the use of topical chemicals, abrasion, or laser |
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| use of chemicals to remove outer layers of skin to treat acne scarring and general keratoses as well as cosmetic purposes to remove fine wrinkles on the face; AKA chemabrasion |
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| any of several laser treatments employed for cosmetic and plastic surgery |
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| removal of acne scars, nevi, tattoos, or fine wrinkles on the skin through the use of sandpaper, wire brushes, or other abrasive materials on the epidermal layer |
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