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CH 3 Adult Health, Integumentary, Primary Skin Lesions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Macule | flat circumscribed area that is a change in the color of the skin; less than 1 cm in diameter |
| Papule | elevated, firm, sirsumscribed area less than 1 cm in diameter |
| Patch | a flat nonpalpable irregularly shaped macule more than 1 cm in diameter |
| Plaque | elevated, firm, and rough lession wit a flat top surface greeater than 1 cm in diameter |
| Wheal | elevated, irregularly shaped area of cutaneous edema; solid, transient; variable diamter |
| Nodule | elevated, firm, circumscribed lession' deeper in dermis than a papule; 1-2 cm in diameter |
| Tumor | elevated and solid lession may or maynot be clearly demarcated; deeper in dermis; greater than 2 cm in diameter |
| Vesicle | elvetaed, circumscribed superficial, not into dermis, filled with serous fluid; less than 1 cm in diameter |
| Bulla | vesicle greater than 1 c in diameter |
| Pustule | elevated, superficial lession; similar to a vescile but filled with a purulent fluid |
| Cyst | elevated, sirsumscribed, encapsulated lesion; in dermis or subcutaneous layer; filled with liquid or semisolid material |
| Telangiectasia | fine, irregular red ines roduced by capillary dilation |
| Scale | heaped up keratinized cells; flaky skin; irregular; thick or thin dry or oily; variation in size |
| Lichenification | rough thinked epidermis secondary to persistent rubbing itching or skin irration; often involves flexor surface of extremity |
| Keliod | irregularly shaped elevated, progressively enlarging scar |
| Scar | tin to thick fibrous tissue that replaces normal shin followig injury or laceration to dermis |
| Excoriation | loss of the epidremis; linear hollowed-out crusted area |
| Fissure | Linear crack or break from the epidermis to the dermis, maybe moist or dry |
| Erosion | loss of part of the epidermis; depressed moist glistening follow eruption of a vesicle or bulla |
| Ulcer | loss of epidermis and dermis; concave, varries in size |
| Crust | dreid serum, blood, or purulent exudate; slightly elevataed; size varries; brown, red, black, tan, or straw; scab on abrasion; eczema |
| Atrophy | thinning of the skin surface and loss of the sin markings; skin translucent and paperlike |
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