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| outer horny layer of skin and inner cellular layer of skin make up this |
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| nourishes epidermis, made of connective tissue, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, hair folicules |
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| this layer of skin is made of adipose tissue |
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| brownish pigment that gives skin its color |
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| golden yellow skin pigment |
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| darker bluer pigment in skin |
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| bluish color due to low O2 level in the blood |
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| blueish color when cutanous blood flow decreases and slows, can be a normal response to anxiety or cold |
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| hair that is short, fine, inconspicuous, relatively unpigmented |
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| coarser, thicker hair, usually pigmented |
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| protect distal ends of fingers and toes |
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| angle b/t proximal nail fold and nail plate is usually less than |
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| glands that produce fatty substance secreted onto the skin surface through the hair follicles, absent from palms and soles |
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| glands that are widely distributed, open directly onto skin, produce sweat to help control body temp |
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| glands found in axillary and genital regions, open into hair follicules, stimulated by emotional stress |
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| bacterial decomposition of apocrine sweat is responsible for |
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| skin term related to water to sweat |
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| excessive or profuse sweating |
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| term for excessive dryness |
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| process of becoming firm or hard |
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| causes of generalized itching |
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| d/t dry skin, aging, pregnancy, uremia, jaundice, lymphoma/leukemia, drug reaction, lice |
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| color present in absence of melanin |
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| distribution of fingers, toes, ears, nose, top of head and genitalia |
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| follows liner pattern along body |
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| follows dermatomal pattern, often preceded by pain, burning, tingling, can be very painful |
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| follows christmas tree distribution (trunk and proximal extremities), fine scaly papules & plaques, dull pink or tawny. more common to spring and fall, spontaneous recovery in 6 weeks |
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| term for in the dark or folds |
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| tern for in a pattern which is exposed to sun/light |
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| term for condition that is everywhere-including palms/soles |
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| systemic infection or allergic response |
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| can cause widespead/generalized rash/lesions |
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| using a glass slide to determine if something is blanching/nonblanching |
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| up to 1 cm flat(not elevated or depressed) spot different in color |
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| >1 cm flat spot different in color |
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| circumscribed solid elevation up to 1 cm |
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| circumscribed elevation > 1 cm, confluence of papules |
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| palpable solid round or elevated mass/lesion >0.5 cm |
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| palpable solid round or elevated mass/lesion > 2 cm |
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| papule with clear fluid up to 1 cm |
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| papule with clear fluid >1 cm |
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| rounded or flat topped, pale red papule/plaque, evanescent, disappearing without hours, round, gyrate, or irregular |
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| breakdown of epidermis to dermin |
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| thickening, roughening of the skin, often from chronic rubbing |
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| small thin place of horny epithelium, heaved up keratin |
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| accumulation of debris, thick or thin |
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| open area caused by superficial loss of tissue, usually with inflammation |
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| deep furrow, cleft or slit |
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| hypertrophic scarring extending beyond borders of initiating injury |
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| 80% of skin cancer is this type |
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| scaly, crusty growths (lesions) caused by damage from the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays, may evolve into squamous cell skin cancer |
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| causes 80% of deaths from skin cancer |
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macular brown or tanned spots usually on sun exposed areas |
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| Asymmetry, Borders, Color variation, Diameter >6 mm, Evolving/Elevation |
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| ragged, notched or blurred borders |
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| types of borders that may indicate skin ca |
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| blue, black mixed with white or red color of moles |
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| color of moles that could inidcate cancer |
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a mixture of junctional nevi and intradermal proliferation |
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| loss of hair in areas where it normally grows |
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| compulsion to pull out ones own hair |
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| superficial infection of proximal and lateral nail folds |
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| punctate depressions of nail |
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| transverse linear depressions "beau's lines" |
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| transverse depressions of nail plates, usually bilateral, following systemic disease |
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