| Question | Answer |
| Alopecia | Loss of hair |
| Autograft | Transplant of tissue from one part of body to another |
| Contractures | Shortening or tension of muscles that affects extension |
| Curling' s ulcer | Duodenal ulcer that develops 8 to 14 days after severe burns |
| Debridement | Removal of damaged tissues and cellular debris |
| Eschar | Black leather crust that forms over burned tissue |
| Excoriation | Injury to the skin caused by scratching or abrasion |
| Exudate | Fluid, cells or other substances that have discharged from cells or blood vessels |
| Heterograft (xenografts) | A transplant of tissue from one species to another (pig, cow ) temporary graft |
| Homografts (allograft) | Transplant of tissue between two genetically dissimilar individuals of same species ( not a twin, usually cadaver) |
| Keloids | Overgrowth of collagenous scar tissue at the site of a skin wound |
| Macules | Small, flat blemishes that are flush with the skin surface |
| Nevi | Moles, usually benign but may become cancerous |
| Papules | Small, raised, solid skin lesions, less than 1cm in diameter |
| Pediculosis | Lice |
| Pruritis | Itching |
| Pustulant vesicles | Small, circumscribed elevations on the skin that contains pus |
| Rule of nines | Determines the TBSA burned. Divides the body into multiples of 9 |
| Suppuration | Production of purulent material |
| Urticaria | Presence of wheals or hives in an allergic reaction. Caused by the release of histamine in an antigen- antibody reaction |
| Wheals | Round elevation of the skin; white in the center w pale red periphery |
| Vesicle | Circumscribed elevation of skin filled with serous fluid; smaller than 0.5 cm |
| Verruca | A benign, viral, warty skin lesion with a rough, papillomatous (nipple like)growth pattern |
