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What degree of burn?
Epidermis is damaged
- skin redness: Erythema
- Acute sensory stimuli: Hyperesthesia
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What Degree of burn?
Epidurmis and part of dermis is damaged
- Formation of fluid filled blisters
- Recovery is usually slow, but complete w/ NO SCAR FORMATION
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What degree of burn?
Both epidermis and dermis are destroyed
- some underlying connective tissure is damaged
- skin: waxy and charred
- INSENSITIVITY to touch
- ulcerating wounds develop, SCAR TISSUE
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| A person with a grade ______ tumor has the best prognosis |
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| A grade _____ tumor has the worst prognosis |
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What stage of cancer?
T1's
No invasion of other tissue |
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What stage?
T1, T2, T3, T4
- primary tumor size
- extent of local invasion
- T1: small min. invasion
- T2: Large w/ extensive local incasion into surrounding tissues
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What Stage?
N1, N2, N3, N4
Degree of lymph node involvement
N1: less involved w/ minimal invasion
N4: more involved with extensive spreading |
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What stage?
M1
Indicates metastasis |
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| Most common type of Skin cancer? |
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| most leathal type of skin cancer? |
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| Bacterial infection of a hair follicle or sebacious glad that produces a pus fulled lesion |
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Deep-seated pyogenic infection of the skin involving sucutaneous tissues
Consists of several furuncles in adjoining hair follicles |
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Acute infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
s/sx:
- localized heat
- redness, pain, and swelling and occationally: fever, malaise, chills, H.A.
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Skin discoloration
i.e. BRUISE |
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Acute or chronic skin inflammation
- erythema
- pustules
- scales
- crusts
- scabs
- possibly itching
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Skin swelling caused by the swelling of the capillaries
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thickened area of epidermis
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| Pinpoint hemorrhage under the skin: smaller version of ecchymosis |
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Chronic skin disease
- circumscribed red patches
- covery by thick dry silvery adherent scales
- excessive developement of the basal layer of the epidermis
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Any severe bleeding disorder
- hemorrhage into the tissues
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Allergic reaction of the skin
- eruption of pale red elevated patches:
- Wheels or hives
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| Loss of skin pigmentation characterized by milk-white patches |
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WARTS
- Plantar
- Juvenile
- Venereal
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What are the three parts of the small intestine?
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| What organ removes glucose from blood to synthesize glycogen (starch)? |
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| What vitamins does the liver store? |
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| What organ destroys old erythrocytes and releases bilirubin? |
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| what is the larges grandular organ in the body? |
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| Which organ performs both endocrince and exocrine functions? |
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| What 2 types of hormones does the pancreas produce? |
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- Alpha: Glucagon
- Beta: produces insulin
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| The gallbladder releases bile through the _______ into the ______ |
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Common Bile Duct
Duodenum |
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| _____ releases a toxin that promots mucosal inflammation and ulceration and is the leading cause of peptic ulcer disease |
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| What do patients with PUD need to avoid? |
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- NSAIDS
- Caffeine
- smoking
- alcohol
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______ is characturized by profuse, watery diarrhea containing varying aounts of:
Blood
Pus
Mucus
(dysentary) |
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| ______ is a general lack of nutrition and wasting occuring in the course of a chronic disease or emotional disturbance |
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____ is chronic inflammatory disease, usually in the ileum, but can be any part of the intestine
s/sx:
Fever
Cramping
Diarrhea
Weight Loss |
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| Epigastric discomfort felt after eating |
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| Passage of dark-colored, tarry stools, due to presence of blood altered by intestinal juices |
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Passage of fat in large amts. in feces due to failure to digest and absorb it
- insufficient pancreatic enzymes
- Malabsorption syndrome
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| What is the space btwn right and left lungs that contains the heart, aorta, esophagus, and bronchi? |
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| _____ is the serous membrane that envelopes the lobes of the lungs and folds over to line the walls of the thoracic cavity |
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| Innermost membrane lying next to the lung |
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| Outermost membrane which lines the thoracic cavity |
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Cavity located btwn the visceral and parietal pleura
contains a small amt. of fluid which allows for the visceral pleura to glide over the parietal pleura during breathing |
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| What are 3 major disorders included in COPD? |
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- Asthma
- Chronic Bronchitit
- Emphysema
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Inflammation of the Bronchi caused primarily by:
Smoking
Air pollution
also by:
Viruses
Bacteria |
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Decreased elasticity of alveoli
cannot contract lungs to original size
Barrel-chest appearence
associated with long-term heavy smoking |
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| What areas can TB infect? |
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LUNGS
bones
genital tract
meninges
peritoneum |
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| Excessive acidity of body fluids associated w/ pulmonary insufficiency and tetention of CO2 |
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Common childhood condition characturized by resonant barking cough, suffocative and difficult breathing
Due to inflammation of larynx, trachea, and bronchial passages |
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| Absence or Xu of O2 in tissues |
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