Abbreviations, acronyms and emponyms
Abbreviations and acronyms
- BCC: Basal cell carcinoma, a common type of skin cancer.
- SCC: Squamous cell carcinoma, another common type of skin cancer.
- MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacterial infection that can affect the skin.
- I&D: Incision and drainage, a surgical procedure for treating an abscess.
- ID: Intradermal, meaning "within the skin," often used to describe the location of an injection.
- TD: Transdermal, meaning "through the skin," used for medications applied via a patch.
- Subcut: Subcutaneous, meaning "beneath the skin," referring to the deepest layer of the integumentary system.
- SLE: Systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune disease that can affect the skin.
- Bx, bx: Biopsy, the removal of tissue for examination.
- C&S: Culture and sensitivity, a test to identify the bacteria causing an infection and determine which antibiotics will be effective.
Eponyms
- Darier's sign: An observation of urticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis), where a brown lesion turns into a wheal after being rubbed.
- Holster sign: A term used to describe patches of confluent, violaceous erythema on the lateral hips and thighs of a patient with dermatomyositis.
- Auspitz's sign: The appearance of pinpoint bleeding after scales have been removed from a psoriatic plaque.
- Kaposi sarcoma: A type of cancer that causes skin lesions, named after Moritz Kaposi, the dermatologist who first described it.
- Mohs surgery: A precise surgical technique used to treat skin cancer, named for Frederic E. Mohs, who developed the procedure.
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