Vocabulary
What is a adipocyte?
What is the combining form for "burn, burning"
Caus/o
What is a cyst?
Abnormal sac containing fluid.
A procedure to destroy tissue, using subfreezing temperatures of liquid nitrogen?
Cryosurgery
Biopsy
What is the middle layer of the skin?
The Dermis
Medical term for under the skin?
Subcutaneous
What layers of the skin damaged in a second degree burn?
The epidermis, and dermis.
Suspicious skin lesions are removed or sampled and examined microscopically by a pathologist.
Skin Biopsy
Subcutaneous
What is albinism?
Deficiency in pigment (melanin) causing white hair and skin.
What is ichthyosis?
An abnormal condition of dry, rough and scaly skin. (fish-like)
A bacterial, inflammatory skin disease characterized by vesicles, pustules, and crusted- over lesions.
Impetigo
Several scratches are made in the skin, and a small amount of test material is then inserted into the scratches.
DLE
Discoid lupus erythematosus
What protein material is found in the epidermis, skin, hair and nails?
Keratin
Combining form for wrinkle?
Rhytid/o
A highly contagious infection in a ring-like pattern, caused by fungus.
A surgical procedure to treat skin cancer
Mohs surgery
SCC
Squamous cell carcinoma
Eumelanin is black-brown skin pigment, and pheomelanin is skin pigment that is red-yellow.
What is hypertrichosis?
Abnormal condition of excessive hair.
An area of the skin that is swollen, red, and accompanied by itching.
True or False a curette is shaped like a T.
False, a curette is shaped like a spoon or a scoop.
ABCDE
Characteristics associated with melanoma :
Asymmetry (of shape)
Border (irregularity)
Color (Variation within one lesion)
Diameter (greater than 6mm)
Evolution ( change )