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Integumentary?
Integumentary System Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the Integumentary System? | The skin & accessory organs (nails, hair, & glands) |
| Another name for a sweat gland? | sudoriferous gland (su-door-if-er-ous) |
| What is paronychium? (pair-o-ni-key-um) | soft tissue around the nail border |
| Medical name for a cuticle? | Eponychium (ep-o-ni-key-um) |
| What connects skin and underlying muscles? | superficial fascia (fa-sh-ia) |
| Name the layers of the dermis | papillare, reticulare |
| Name the layers of the epidermis | stratum corneum, stratum lucidum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale (ba-sale-ie) |
| What makes up the dermis? | blood vessels, nerves, hair, nails, glands |
| How many layers are in the dermis? | 2 |
| What does a sebaceous gland do? | secrete sebum that lubricates skin/hair |
| How many layers are in the epidermis? | 5 |
| Outermost layer of skin? | epidermis |
| Second layer of skin? | dermis |
| steat/o | fat |
| strept/o | twisted chain |
| squam/o | flat/scar like |
| trich/o | hair |
| ungu/o | nail |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| xer/o | dry |
| rhytid/o | winkle |
| rube/o | red |
| seb/o | sebum/oil |
| staphyl/o | clusters |
| pht/o | plant |
| pil/o | hair |
| poli/o | grey matter |
| py/o | pus |
| aden/o | in relationship to a gland |
| adip/o | fat |
| onych/o | nail |
| pachy/o | thick |
| jaund/o | yellow |
| kerat/o | hard |
| myc/o | fungus |
| necr/o | death in cell/body |
| albin/o | white |
| aut/o | self |
| lute/o | yellow |
| melan/o | black |
| bi/o | life |
| caus/o | burning sensation |
| leuk/o | white |
| lip/o | fat |
| erythr/o | red |
| heter/o | different |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| ichthy/o (ik-th-ee) | dry/scaly |
| derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
| diaphor/o | profuse sweating |
| eosin/o | rosy |
| erythrem/o | red |
| cauter/o | burn |
| crypt/o | hidden |
| cutane/o | skin |
| cyan/o | blue |
| para- | beside |
| per- | through |
| peri- | surrounding |
| sub- | under |
| epi- | on/upon |
| hyper- | over |
| hypo- | under |
| intra- | with-in |
| -coccus | spherical bacterium |
| -ectomy | surgical removal |
| -ia | condition |
| -malacia | softening |
| -opsy | view of |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhea | discharge |
| -tome | an instrument to cut |
| -tomy | to cut |
| (Abbrev.) PPD | tuberculin skin test (too-ber-q-lin) |
| (Abbrev.) Subcu, Subq, SC, SQ | subcutaneous |
| (Abbrev.) I&D | incision & drainage |
| (Abbrev.) Derm | dermatology |
| (Abbrev.) CA | cancer |
| (Abbrev.) BX | biopsy |
| Dermabrasion is? | planing skin by means of sander, brush, or sandpaper |
| Dermatologist is? | physician who treats conditions of the skin |
| Dermatoplasty is? | surgical repair of the skin |
| Electrocautery is? | cauterization by means of heated intruments |
| Epidermolysis is? | loosening of epidermis |
| Causalgia is? | burning pain |
| Collagen is? | protein substance of skin |
| Debridement is? | cleansing of or removal of dead tissue from a wound |
| Delayed Flap is? | pedicle of skin with blood supply that is separated from origin over time |
| Anhidrosis is? | deficency of sweat |
| Autograft is? | graft from patient's own body |
| Avulsion is? | ripping or tearing away of parts surgically or accidentally |
| Biopsy is? | removal of small pieces of living tissue for diagnostic purpose |
| Adipose is? | fatty |
| Albinism is? | lack of color pigment |
| Allograft is? | homograft, same species graft |
| Alopecia is? | condition in which hair falls out |
| Absence | without |
| Epidermomycosis is? | superficial fungal infection |
| Epithelium is? | surface covering of internal and external organs of the body |
| Erythema is? | redness of skin |
| Escharotomy is? (es-car-otomy) | surgical incision into necrotic (dead) tissue |
| Xanthoma is? | tumor composed of cells containing lipid material, yellow in color |
| Xenograft is? | different species graft |
| Xeroderma is? | dry, discolored, scaly skin |
| Steatoma is? | fat mass in sebaceous glands |
| Stratified | layered |
| Stratum (strata) | layer |
| subungual | beneath nail |
| sebaceous gland | secretes sebum |
| seborrhea | excess sebum secretion |
| sebum | oily substance |
| split-thickness graft | all epidermis and some of the dermis |
| muscle flap is? | transfer of muscle from origin to recipient site |
| neurovascular flap is? | contains artery, vein, and nerve |
| pedicle is? | growth attached with a stem |
| pilosebaceous is? | pertains to hair follicles and subaceous glands |
| Melanin is? | dark pigment of skin |
| Melanoma is? | tumor of epidermis, malignant and black in color |
| Mohs' surgery or Mohs' micrografic surgery | removal of skin cancer in layers by a surgeon who also acts as a pathologist during surgery |
| Leukoderma is? | depigmentation of skin |
| Leukoplakia is? | white patch on mucous membrane |
| Lipocyte is? | fat cell |
| Lipoma is? | fatty tumor |
| Hemograft is? | Allograft, same species graft |
| Ichthyosis is? | skin diorder characterized by scaling |
| Incise is? | to cut into |
| Island pedicle flap is? | contains single artery and vein that remains attached to origin temporarily or permanently |
| Fissure is? | cleft or grove |
| Free full-thickness graft is? | graft of epidermis that is completely removed from doner area |
| Furuncle is? | nodule in skin caused by staphylococci entering through the hair follicle |
| Hematoma is? | localized collection of blood, usually results of a break in a blood vessel |
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