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| consists of skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and oil glands |
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| outer layer of the skin, contains no blood supply. has about 5 different layers |
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| stretch marks, linear tears caused when elastic fibers of dermis are overstretched due to rapid growth |
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| a scraping or rubbing away of skin or mucous membrane as a result of friction to the area |
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| a scraping or rubbing away of skin or mucous membrane as a result of friction to the area |
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| a localizes collection of pus in any part of the body |
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| an individual with a marked deficiency of pigment in the eyes, hair, and skin |
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| partial or complete loss of hair |
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| the deepest of five layers of skin |
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| an inflammation, sore, or ulcer in the skin over a bony prominence of the body, resulting from loss of blood supply and oxygen to the area due to prolonged pressure on the body part; also known as pressure ulcer |
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| an open comedo, caused by accumlation of keratin and sebum within the opening of a hair follicle |
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| a small, thin-walled skin lesion containing clear fluid; a vesicle |
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| a localized pus-producing infection originating deep in a hair follicle; a furnacle |
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| a bluish-black discoloration of an area of the skin or mucous membrand caused by an escape of blood into the tissues as a result of an injury to the area |
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| a diffuse, acute infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, characterised by a localised heat, deep redness, pain and swelling |
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| the typical lesion of acne culgaris, caused by accumulation of caratin and sebum withen the opening of a har follicle |
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| an injury to a part of the body wuthout a break in the skin |
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| the dermis; the layer of skin just under the epidermis |
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| a condition of a bluish discoloration of the skin |
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| a closed sac of pouch in or within the skin that contains fluid, semi-fluid, or solid material |
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| removal of debris, foreign objects, and damaged ot cecrotic tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing |
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| a physician who specializes in the treatment of diseases and sisorders of the skin |
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| the layer of skin immediately under the epidermis; the corium |
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| a bluish-black discoloration of an area of the skin or mucous membrand cause by an escape of clood into the tissues as a result of injury to the area; also known as a bruise or black-and-blue mark |
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| the outermost layer of skin |
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| redness of the skin due to capillary dilatation. an exampple of erythema is nercous blushing or mild sunburn |
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| a cracklike sore or grooce in the skin or mucous membrane |
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| an abnormal passageway between two tubular organ (eg rectum and vagina) or from an organ to the body surface |
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| death of tissue, most often involving the extremities. usually the result of ischemia (loss of blood supply to an are), bacterak unvasions, and subsequent putrefaction (decaying) of the tissue |
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| a beningn (nonmalignant) tumor that consists of a mass of blood vessels and has a reddish-purple color |
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| excessive body hair in an adult malle distribution pattern, occuring in women |
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| a substance, found in all cells, that is released in allergic, inflammatory reactions |
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| macrophage; a large phagocytic cell (cell that ingests microorganisms , other cells, and foreign particles) occuring in the walls of blood vessels and losse connective tissue |
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| a circumscribed, slightly elevated lesion of the skin that is paler in the center than its surrounding edges; wheal |
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| any visible damage to the tissues of the skin, such as a wound, sore, rash, or boil |
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| a small, flat dicoloration of the skin that is neirher raised or depressid |
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| destruction or detachment |
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| small, pinpoint hemmorages of the skin |
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| a small, stalklike growth that protrudes upward or outward from a mucous membrane surface, resembling a mushroom stalk |
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| a group of bleeding disorders characterised by bleeding into the skin an mucous membranes; small pinpoint hemorrhages are known as petecha and larger hemmorhagic areas are known as eccymoses or bruises |
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| an oil gland located in the dermis; its secretions provide oil to the hair and surrounding skin |
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| the oily secretions of the sebaceous glands |
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| a small brownish oor flesh-colored ouhgrowth of the skin occuring frequently on the neck; aka cutaeous papilloma |
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| the fatty layer of tissue located beneath the dermis |
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| a circumscribed, open sore or lesion of the skin that is accompanied ny inflammation |
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| a reation of the skin in which there is an appearance of smooth, slighlty elelcated patches (wheals) that are redder or paler than the surrounding skin and often accompanied by severe itching |
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| a small, thin-walled, skin lesion containing clear fluid; a blister |
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| a chronic skin condition characterised by roughness and dryness |
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| a common inflammatory disorder senn on the face, chest, back, and neck, and which appears as papules, pustules, and comedos; commonly known as acne |
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| the most common malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue, occuing most often in areas of the skin that are exposed to the sun |
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| a malignancy of the squamouse, or scalelike, cells of the epithelial tisssue, shich is a much faster growing cancer than basal cell and which has a greater potential for metastasis of not treated |
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| an acute viral infection characterized by painful, vesicular eruptions on the skin followinf along the nerce pathways of underlying spinal or cranial nerves |
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| contagious superfiscial skin infection characterized by serous vesicles and pustules filled with millions of staphylococcus or streptococcus bacteria, usually forming on the face |
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| rare malignant lesions that begin as soft purple-brown nodules or plaques on the feel and graduallu spread throughout the skin |
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| an enlarged, irregularly shaped, and elevated scar that forms due to the presence of large amounts of collagen during the formation of the scar |
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| skin condition in which there is a thickening and overgrowth of the cornified epithelium |
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| white, hard thickened patches firmly attached to the mucous membrane such as the mout, vulva, or penis |
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| (mole) a visual accumulation of melanocytes, creating a flat or raised rounded macule or papule with definate borders |
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| a common, noninfectectious, chronic disorder of the skin manifested by silvery-white scales over round, raised seddened plaques producing itching |
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| a highly contagious parasitic infestation caused by the "human itch mite" resulting in a rash, prurites, and a feeling in the skin of "something crawling" |
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| systemic lupus erythematosus |
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| a chronic, multisystem, inflammatory disease characterized by lesions of the nervous system and the skin, renal problems, and vasculitis. a red rash known as the "butterfly rash" is often seen on the nose and face |
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| ringworm of the scalp is more common in children |
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| ringworm of the foot aka atheletes foot |
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| various procedures used to identify specific allergens in an individual by exposing the person to a very small quantity of the allergen |
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| heat or caustic substances that burn and scar the skin (coagulation of tissue) |
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| a noninvasive treatment that uses subfreezing temperature to freeze and destroy the tissue |
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| removal of the epidermis and a portion of the dermis with sandpaper or brushes in order to eliminate superficial scars or unwanted tatoos |
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electro disseccation
a technique using an electrical spark to burn and destroy tissue; ased primarily for the removal of surface lesions |
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| a process of placing tissue on a recipient site, take from a donor site, in order to provide the protective mechanisms of skin to an area unable to regenerated skin, as in 3rd° burns |
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| decubitus (ulcer); bedsore |
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| (systemic) lupus erythenatosus |
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| systemic lupus erythematosus |
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| transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
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| large bony process located below the neck of the femur, for attachment of muscles |
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| an opening or hollow space in a bone, as in the paranasal sinuses or the frontal sinus |
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| a hold within a bone that allows blood vessles or nerves to pass through, as in the foramen magnum of the skull that allows the cranial nerves to pass through it |
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| lower portion of the sternum |
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| point of connection of two pubic bones |
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| specific features of individual bones |
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| the thick, white, fibrous membrane that covers the surface of a long bone |
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| literally means porous bones; that is, bones that were once strong become fragile due to loss o fbone denstiy |
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| bones become abnormally soft due to a deficiency of calcium and phosphurus in the bloodnaka rickets |
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| local or generalized infection of the bone and bone marrow, resulting from a bacterial infection that as spread to the bone tissue through the blood |
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| occurs when a bone, shich is weakened by a preexisting disease, breaks in response to a force that would not normally cause a bone to break |
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| injection of a radioisotope, whidh is absorbed by bone tissue. after ~ 3 hours, the skeleton is scanned wirh a gamma camera |
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| the prociss of removing a small sample of bone marrow from a a selected site with a needle for the purpose of examining the specien under a microscope |
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| site for intramuscular injections |
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| an abnormal, usually permanent bending of a joint into a fixed position; usually caused by atrophy and shortening of muscle fibers |
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| thin sheets of fibrous connective tissue that penetrate and cover the entire muscle, holding the fibers together |
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| the point of a muscle to a bone that it moves |
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| the point of attachment of a muscle to a bone that is less movable |
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| a strong fibrous band of tissue that extends from a muscle, attaching it to the bone by becoming continuous with the periosteum of the bone |
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| group of genetically transmitted disorders characterized by progressive weakness and muscl fiber degeneration without evidence of nerve involvement or gegereration of nerve tissue. the onset is early in life |
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| the process of recording the strength of the contraction of a muscle when it is stimulated my an electric current |
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| the bones have a space between them |
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| sac that lubricates a synovial joint |
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| cracking sound heard upon joint movement |
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| abnormal enlargement of the join at the base of th big toe |
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| cystic tumor developing on a tendon; sometimes occurs on the back of the wrist |
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| acute arthritis that is characterized by inflammation of the first metatarsl joint of the big toe |
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| aka degenerative joint diseasemost common arthritis |
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| chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease that affects mulitple joints of the body- mainly small one like hand and feet |
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| surgical puncture of a joint with a needle for the purpose of withdrawing fluid for ananlysis |
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| process of x-raying tthe inside of a joint, after a contrast medium has been injected into the joint |
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| surgical repair of a joint |
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| visualization of the interior of a joint using an endoscope |
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