Essentials of Diseases of the Skin: Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of MedicineStelwagon, Henry Weightman
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Essentials of Diseases of the Skin: Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Skin -- Diseases
Those lesions resulting from accidental or natural change, modification
or termination of the primary lesions.
#Enumerate the secondary lesions.#
Scales, crusts, excoriations, fissures, ulcers, scars and stains.
#What are scales (squamae)?#
Dry, laminated, epidermal exfoliations; as, for example, the scales of
psoriasis, ichthyosis, and eczema.
#What are crusts (crustae)?#
Dried effete masses of exudation; as, for example, the crusts of
impetigo, of eczema, and of the pustular and ulcerating syphilodermata.
#What are excoriations (excoriationes)?#
Superficial, usually epidermal, linear or punctate loss of tissue; as,
for example, ordinary scratch-marks.
#What are fissures (rhagades)?#
Linear cracks or wounds, involving the epidermis, or epidermis and
corium; as, for example, the cracks which often occur in eczema when
seated about the joints, the cracks of chapped lips and hands.
#What are ulcers (ulcera)?#
Rounded or irregularly-shaped and sized loss of skin and subcutaneous
tissue resulting from disease; as, for example, the ulcers of syphilis
and of cancer.
#What are scars (cicatrices)?#
Connective-tissue new formations replacing loss of substance.
#What are stains?#
Discolorations left by cutaneous disease, which stains may be transitory
or permanent.
#Distribution and Configuration.#
#What do you mean by a patch of eruption?#
A single group or aggregation of lesions or an area of disease.
#When is an eruption said to be limited or localized?#
When it is confined to one part or region.
#When is an eruption said to be general or generalized?#
When it is scattered, uniformly or irregularly, over the entire surface.
#When is an eruption universal?#
When the whole integument is involved, without any intervening healthy
skin.
#When is an eruption said to be discrete?#
When the lesions constituting the eruption are isolated, having more or
less intervening normal skin.
#When is an eruption confluent?#
When the lesions constituting the eruption are so closely crowded that a
solid sheet results.
#When is an eruption uniform?#
When the lesions constituting the eruption are all of one type or
character.
#When is an eruption multiform?#
When the lesions constituting the eruption are of two or more types or
characters.
#When are lesions said to be aggregated?#
When they tend to form groups or closely-crowded patches.
#When are lesions disseminated?#
When they are irregularly scattered, with no tendency to form groups or
patches.
#When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?#
When it presents a rounded form, and usually tending to clear in the
centre; as, for example, a patch of ringworm.
#When is a patch of eruption said to be annular?#
When it is ring-shaped, the central portion being clear; as, for
example, in erythema annulare.
#What meaning is conveyed by the term "iris"?#
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