Med Term

• bulla - blister of more than 1 cm
• single chamber

coarse crackling sensation palpable over the skin surface. It occurs in subcutaneous emphysema when air escapes from the lung and enters the subcutaneous tissue, as after open thoracic injury or surgery.

Double Vission

Difficult swallowing

Difficulty with language comprehension or expression

Difficult breathing

A hemorrhagic spot or blotch, larger than petechia, in the skin or mucous membrane, forming a nonelevated, rounded or regular, blue or purplish patch

protruding eyes

restriction of blood flow due to factors in blood vesels

A hypertrophic scar. The resulting skin level is elevated by excess scar tissue, which is invasive beyond the site of original injury. May increase long after healing occurs. Looks smooth, rubbery, “clawlike,” and has a higher incidence among blacks.

• humpback
• pain and limited mobility
• may impair cardiopulmonary function

Prolonged intense scratching eventually thickens the skin and produces tightly packed sets of papules; looks like surface of moss

Solely a color change, flat and circumscribed, of less than 1 cm. Examples: freckles, flat nevi, hypopigmentation, petechiae, measles, scarlet fever.

nearsightedness

back and forth oscillation of the eyes

• Btwn Lethargy and stupor
• difficult to rouse, sleeps most of the time
• mumbles monosylables

swelling of the optic disc/nerve

something you can feel (i.e., solid, elevated, circumscribed, less than 1 cm diameter) caused by superficial thickening in the epidermis. Examples: elevated nevus (mole), lichen planus, molluscum, wart (verruca).

• benign growths
• smooth, pale gray, avascular, mobile, not tender
• can be from alergies

decreased power of accomodation of the lens

• drooping
• ex. of upper eyelid

pus

blood and serous fluid drainage

• clear yellow, transparent
• benign, watery like

Deviation in the anteroposterior axis of eye

Superficial, raised, transient, and erythematous; slightly irregular shape due to edema (fluid held diffusely in the tissues). Examples: mosquito bite, allergic reaction, dermographism, Tumor