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| a circumscribed area of a different color from the surrounding skin; flat, without elevation or depression, less than 1.0 cm in size. Most common color changes are white (hypopigmented), brown (hyperpigmented), and pink/red (erythematous). Outline may be regular or irregular; color may be uniform or variegate. |
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| same as a macule but 1 cm or greater in size. |
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| Difference in Macule and patch |
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Macule less than 1 cm
PAtch 1 cm or greater |
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| a discrete solid elevated lesion that may be dome-shaped or flat-topped, firm or soft, smoothe or rough-surfaced; most commonly flesh-colored, pink/red, or brown; less than 1 cm in size. When on a narrow stalk, the papule is described as pedunculated, when on a wider stalk, it is sessile. With a depression in the center it may be called umbilicated. |
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| an elevated flat lesion broader than it is thick, often formed from a coalescence of papules; 1 cm or greater in size. When the thickened ______ consists of epidermal thickening accompanied by accentuation of skin markings, it is described as lichenified and is usually the result of chronic rubbing. |
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| a well-defined solid palpable lesion with significant depth; 1 cm or greater in size. Other characteristics may be described as for a papule. |
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| a papule or plaque resulting from extravasation of serous fluid from blood vessels into the surrounding dermis. |
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| a clear fluid-filled lesion; less than 1 cm in size. |
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| a clear fluid-filled lesion 1 cm or greater in size, may be described as tense or flaccid. |
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| a white fluid-filled lesion with contents of purulent material. |
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| a walled cavity containing fluid or semisolid material, may be superficial and visible above the surface of the skin or deep and detectable only on palpation, often mobile and somewhat compressible. |
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| excess stratum corneum that flakes – it may be white or gray, described as loose, adherent, micaceous, or fine. |
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| a hardened layer from dried serum (yellow/brown), blood (hemorrhagic, red/black), or purulent exudate (yellow/green). |
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| localized loss of epithelium, often from rupture of vesicles or bullae. Crust may form on its surface. |
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| thin linear crack in the epidermis, often due to excessive dryness. |
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| circumscribed loss of epidermis and at least a portion of the dermis. ______s may be of varying depths, have characteristic borders such as ragged or undermined, and have a clean or unclean base. Often an eschar (scab or dry crust) forms in the base. |
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| loss of substance of the integument, may be epidermal thinning or loss of elements of the dermis leading to a visible depression. |
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| new connective tissue that replaces lost substance in the dermis or subcutaneous tissue as a result of injury or disease. Scars may be thin and atrophic or firm and nodular overgrowths of connective tissue (keloids). |
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| characterized by pruritus and erythematous scaling patches with vesicles in the acute stage and lichenified plaques in the chronic stage; involves an infiltrate of inflammatory cells in the superficial dermis and epidermis. |
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| characterized by erythematous scaling papules and plaques without vesicles; involves an infiltrate of inflammatory cells in the superficial dermis and epidermis sometimes with epidermal thickening. |
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| characterized by vesicles and bullae that may be on an inflamed or non-inflamed base; vesicle/bulla formation may occur within the epidermis or at the dermo-epidermal junction |
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| characterized by erythematous patches or wheals, petechiae or palpable purpura; involves dilation of blood vessels with extravasation of fluid or red cells, sometimes damage to the vessel walls. |
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| Vascular reaction patterns |
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| excess of hair not limited to androgen-dependent areas |
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| excess of terminal hair growth in women in a typical male patern |
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