Skin, Hair, and Nails
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| Alopecia | baldness; hair loss
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| Annular | circular shape to skin lesion
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| Bulla | elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm in diameter
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| Confluent | skin lesions that run together
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| Crust | thick, dried-out exudate left on skin when vesicles or pustules burst or dry up
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| Cyanosis | dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes as a result of increased amount of nonoxygenated hemoglobin
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| Erosion | scooped-out, shallow depression in skin
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| Erythema | intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammation
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| Excoriation | self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
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| Fissure | linear crack in skin extending into dermis
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| Furuncle | boil; suppurative inflammatory skin lesion dur to infected hair follicle
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| Hemangioma | skin lesion due to benign proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis
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| Iris | target shape of skin lesion
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| Jaundice | yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
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| Keloid | hypertrophic scar, elevated beyond site of original injury
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| Lichenification | tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin; caused by prolonged intense scratching
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| Lipoma | benign fatty tumor
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| Maceration | softening of tissue by soaking
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| Macule | flat skin lesion with only a color change
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| Nevus | mole; circumscribed skin lesion due to excess melanocytes
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| Nodule | elevated skin lesion larger than 1 cm diameter
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| Pallor | excessively pale, whitish-pink color to lightly pigmented skin
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| Papule | palpable skin lesion smaller than 1 cm in diameter
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| Plaque | skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together
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| Pruritus | itching
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| Purpura | red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels
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| Pustule | elevated cavity containing thick, turbid fluid
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| Scale | compact desiccated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells
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| Telangiectasia | skin lesion due to permanently enlarged and dilated blood vessels that are visible
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| Ulcer | sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that cause a deep depression in skin, extending into dermis
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| Vesicle | elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter
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| Wheal | raised red skin lesion due to interstitial fluid
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| Zosteriform | linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route
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