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Medical Record Activities
Medical reports included in the following activities reflect common real-life clinical scenarios using medical termi-
nology to document patient care.
MEDICAL RECORD ACTIVITY 3-1
COMPOUND NEVUS
Terminology
Terms listed in the table below come from the medical report Compound Nevus that follows. Use a medical
dictionary such as Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary,the appendices of this book, or other resources to define
each term. Then practice the pronunciations aloud for each term.
Term Definition
circumscribed
SĔR-kŭm-skrībd
crusting
KRŬST-ĭng
lesion
LĒ-zhŭn
melanoma
mĕl-ă-NŌ-mă
nevus
NĒ-vŭs
trauma
TRAW-mă
vermilion border
vĕr-MĬL-yŏn
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