| Alopecia | Loss of hair. Cause can be aging, drugs, such as antineoplastics, anxiety, or disorder processes |
| Autograft | surgical transplantation of any tissue from one part of the body to another location in the same patient. |
| Conttractures | Shortening or tension of muscles that affects extension |
| Curling's Ulcer | A duodenal ulcer that develops 8 to 14 days, after severe burns on the surface of the body; the first sign is usually vomiting of bright red blood |
| Debridement | (removal of damaged tissue and cellular debris from a wound or burn to prevent infection and promote healing, special cleansing support regeneration of the tissues. |
| Eschar | Black leathery crust (i.e. a slough) that the body forms over burned tissue, eschar can harbor microorganisms and cause infection. |
| excoriation | injury to the surface layer of skin caused by scratching or abrasion |
| Exudate | fluid, cells, or other substances that have been slowly exuded, or discharged, from cells or blood vessels through small pores or breaks in cell membranes |
| Heterogarft (xenograft) | Tissue from another species such as a pig or a cow, used as a temporary graft. |
| Homograft (allograft) | The transfer of tissue between two genetically dissimilar individuals of the same species, such as a skin transplant from another person who is not an identical twin (often a cadaver) |
| Keloids | (an overgrowth of collagenous scar tissue of the site of a skin wound) are seen more often in individuals of African descent than in whites |
| Macules | small fat blemishes flush with the skin surface |
| Nevi(singular nevis) or moles | Pigmented congenital skin blemishes that are usually benign but may become cancerous |
| Papules | small, raised, solid skin lesions less than 1 cm in diameter |
| Pediculosis(lice infestation) | a parasitic disorder of the skin |
| Pruritus | The symptom of itching, tingling, or burning |
| Pustulant vessicles | (small, circumscribed elevations of the skin that contains pus) and then rupture and form dried exudate |
| Rule of nines | Determines the total body surface area (TBSA) burned. The rule of nines divides the body into multiples of nine. The entire head is 9%, the anterior and posterior aspects of the arms are a total of 9% each, the legs are 9% anterior and 9% posterior, the chest and back are 18% each, and the perineum is 1% |
| Supporation | Production of purulent material |
| Urticaria | is the presence of wheals or hives in an allergic reaction, commonly caused by drugs, food, insect bites, inhalants, emotional stress, or exposure to heat or cold |
| Verruca | is a benign, viral, warty skin lesion with a rough, papillomatous (nipple-like) growth pattern |
| Vesicle | (circumscribed elevation of skin filled with serous, fluid, smaller than 0.5 cm) at the corner of the mouth, on the lips or not the nose |
| Wheals | (round elevation of the skin: while in the center with a pale red periphery) of urticaria appear suddenly |
| Ankylosis | Fixation of a joint, often in an abnormal position, usually resulting from destruction of articular cartilage and subchondral bone |
| Arthrocentesis | Puncture of a joint with a needle to withdraw fluid, performed to obtain synovial fluid for diagnostic purposes |
| Arthrodesis | Surgical fusion of a joint |
| Arthroplasty | Surgical repair or refashioning of one of both sides, parts, or specific tissues within a joint |
| Bipolar hip replacement(hemiarthroplasty) | Prosthetic implant used to replace the femoral head and neck in hip fractures when the vascular supply of the femoral head is or may become compromised |
| Blanching test | a test of the rate of capillary refill; benching means to cause to become pale by applying digital pressure |
| Callus | Bony deposits forms between and around the broken ends of a fractured bone during healing |
| Coles fracture | A fracture of the distal portion of the radius within 1 inch of the joint of the wrist |
| Compartment Syndrome | Pathologic condition caused by progressive development of arterial compression and reduced blood supply to an extremity |
| Crepitus | Sound that resembles the crackling noise heard when rubbing hair between the fingers or throwing salt on an open fire |
| Fibromyalgia | A musculoskeletal chronic pain syndrome of unknown etiology that causes pain in muscles, bones, or joints |
| Kyphosis | An abnormal condition of the vertebral column; characterized by increased convexity in the curvature of the Thoracic spine |
| Lordosis | An increase in the curve at the lumbar space region that throws the shoulder back, making the appearance "lordly or kingly" |
| Open reduction with internal fixation (ORIF) | A surgical procedure allowing fracture alignment under direct visualization while using various internal fixation devices applied to the bone |
| Parathesia | any subjective sensation, such as a prickling "pins and needles" feeling or numbness |
| Scoliosis | Curvature of the spine usually consisting of two curves; the original abnormal curve and a compensatory curve in the opposite direction |
| Sequestrum | A fragment of necrotic bone that isa partially of entirely detached from the surrounding or adjacent health or healthy bone |
| Subluxations | partial dislocation |
| Tophi | Calculi containing sodium rate deposits that develop in periarticular fibrous tissue; typically found in patients with gout |
| Volkmann's Contracture | A permanent contracture with claw hand, flexion of wrist and finger, and atrophy of the forearm, can occur as a result of compartment syndrome |
