Chapter 3 Homework – Flashcards

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Case Report 3.1 You are ... a dermatology technologist working with dermatologist Laura Echols, MD, a member of the Fulwood Medical Group. You are communicating with ... Mr. Rod Andrews, a 60-year-old man, who shows you three skin lesions—two on his left forearm and one on the back of his left hand. You learn that he has been living in Arizona for the past 10 years but has recently returned to this area in order to live near his daughter and young grandchildren. You find no other skin lesions on his body. When Dr. Echols examined Mr. Andrews, she determined that two of his lesions were basal cell carcinomas and treated them with cryosurgery, an approach that involves freezing cancerous tissue. She believed that the third lesion was a squamous cell carcinoma and performed a biopsy removal of the cutaneous (skin) lesion. You sent this to the laboratory with a request for a pathologic diagnosis and determination of whether the lesion had been completely removed.

A. Review the Case Report on the previous page before answering the questions. 1. What role did sunlight play in Mr. Andrews' skin cancer? 2. What treatments were given for Mr. Andrews' skin cancer? 3. What future precautions should Mr. Andrews take?

Practice using your medical terminology in the following exercise. When possible, be sure to deconstruct the term using the slashes provided. Fill in the blanks. 1. This pigment is responsible for skin color:

Review the Case Report before answering the questions. Case Report 3.2 You are ...a medical assistant working with dermatologist Dr. Lenore Echols in Fulwood Medical Center. You are communicating with ...Ms. Cheryl Fox, a 37-year-old nursing assistant working in a surgical unit in Fulwood Medical Center. Recently, Ms. Fox's fingers have become red and itchy, with occasional vesicles. She has also noticed irritation and swelling of her earlobes and pruritus. Over the weekends, both the itching and the rash on her hands worsen. A patch test by Dr. Echols showed that Ms. Fox is allergic to nickel, which is present in the rings she wears on both hands and in her earrings. She only wears this jewelry on the weekends, not during her workdays. For Ms. Fox, the allergy is not just a local reaction to an irritant. Her form of atopic or allergic dermatitis develops when the whole body becomes sensitive to an allergen. This whole-body involvement is shown by her systemic symptoms of pruritus distant from the local irritant site. Ms. Fox has stopped wearing rings and earrings that contain nickel. Her dermatitis was treated with topical steroids 1. What two parts of Ms. Fox's body were exhibiting symptoms? 2. What were the symptoms? 3. Why are the symptoms confined to those two areas? 4. What is Ms. Fox allergic to? 5. Why do her symptoms worsen on the weekends?

A. Identify the italicized element in the first column of the chart, define it, and use it to determine the meaning of the medical term. Medical Term (P, S, R, or CF) Meaning of Element Meaning of Medical Term Metastasis 1. 2. 3. AHLT 100 Textbook Exercises Chapter 3 3 malignant 4. 5. 6. melanoma 7. 8. 9. decubitus 10. 11. 12.

Ch 3, Page 41 A. Terminology challenge. Employ the language of dermatology to answer the following questions. 1. Demonstrate your understanding of the terms infection and infestation by explaining how they are different. Infection: Infestation: 2. What are lice eggs called?

Ch 3, Page 41 A. Terminology challenge. Employ the language of dermatology to answer the following questions. 1. Demonstrate your understanding of the terms infection and infestation by explaining how they are different. Infection: Infestation: 2. What are lice eggs called?

Ch 3, Page 43 A. Document using the language of dermatology by inserting the correct term. Always review the above WAD before you start any exercise. 1. According to the patient's symptoms, the physician diagnosed (body attacks its own tissues) disease. 2. What we thought was originally a localized problem has now spread, and the patient's final diagnosis is (inflammatory connective tissue disease affecting the whole body) . 3. Because of this patient's past history of HIV, his new skin lesions have been diagnosed by the pathologist as (a form of skin cancer seen in AIDS patients) . 4. Patients with (rash with reddish, silver-scaled patches) often wear long sleeves to hide their elbows. B. Critical thinking and the language of dermatology will help you answer the following questions. 1. Using the two medical terms symptom and sign from the WAD, explain which term is objective and which term is subjective, and what that means to the patient.

Ch 3, Page 45 A. Review the Case Report on this spread before answering the questions. 1. What does it mean if a medication is "over the counter" (OTC) in a pharmacy? 2. Name one medication you can buy OTC in a pharmacy: AHLT 100 Textbook Exercises Chapter 3 4 3. What types of skin eruptions does Mr. Winter have on his face? 4. What type of eruption does he have on his back that he does not have on his face? 5. Why does severe acne make it difficult for Mr. Winter to have an active social life? 6. What type of specialist did Mr. Winter consult? B. Patient communication: Rewrite the following sentences from the Case Report and text in language Mr. Winter can understand. Substitute layperson's language for medical terms. Case Report 3.3 You are ...a pharmacist working in the pharmacy at Fulwood Medical Center. You are communicating with ...Mr. Wayne Winter, an 18-year-old man who will be starting college in a few months. Mr. Winter has had acne since the age of 15. He has tried several over-the-counter products, all of which have been unsuccessful in treating his acne. He's even tried retinoic acid. He has numerous comedones, papules, pustules, and scars on his face and forehead and has severe cystic lesions and scars on his back. His social life is nonexistent, and his peers frequently tease him. He wishes to change all this before he gets to college. Your role is to explain to him how to use the medications Dr. Echols, a dermatologist, has prescribed, what their effects will be, and what possible complications may occur. 1. "He has numerous comedones, papules, pustules, and scars on his face and forehead and has severe cystic lesions and scars on his back." 2. "Around puberty, androgens are thought to trigger excessive production of sebum from the sebaceous glands, and sebum brings with it excessive numbers of broken-down cells." 3. "Comedones can stay closed, leading to papules, or can rupture, allowing bacteria to get in and produce pustules."

Ch 3, Page 47 A.Elements are clues to the meaning of a medical term. Identify each given element in the following chart and list its meaning. Then answer the questions below. AHLT 100 Textbook Exercises Chapter 3 5 Element (P, R, CF, or S) Meaning of Element para 1. 2. ia 3. 4. myc 5. 6. onycho 7. 8. osis 9. 10. onych 11. 12. B.Construct terms from the elements in the WAD. 1. The elements in the chart above form which two terms in the WAD? ____________________ and _________________________