Medical Terminology Simplified

Additional Medical Terms • CHAPTER 3 85

Figure 3-6 Abscess that has formed a furuncle in hair follicles of the neck.

From Goldsmith, Lazarus, and Tharp: Adult and Pediatric Dermatology: A Color

Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. F. A. Davis, Philadelphia, 1997, p 364, with

permission.

Figure 3-7 Acne. From Goldsmith, Lazarus, and Tharp:

Adult and Pediatric Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis

and Treatment. F. A. Davis, Philadelphia, 1997, p 227, with

permission.

Absence or loss of hair, especially of the head; also known as baldness

Discolored, dried sebum plugging an excretory duct of the skin; also called blackhead

Closed sac or pouch in or under the skin with a definite wall that contains fluid,

semifluid, or solid material

The cyst may enlarge as sebum collects and may become infected.

A cyst filled with sebum (fatty material) from a sebaceous gland

Redness of the skin caused by swelling of the capillaries

Eczematous rash may result from various causes, including allergies, irritating chemi-

cals, drugs, scratching or rubbing the skin, or sun exposure. It may be acute or chronic.

(See Fig. 3–8.)

alopecia

ăl-ō-PĒ-shē-ă

comedo

KŎM-ē-dō

cyst

SĬST

sebaceous

sē-BĀ-shŭs

eczema

ĔK-zĕ-mă