- alopecia
- hair loss
- autoimmune disorder
- occurs when the body’s immune system attacks and destroys healthy body tissue
- basal ganglia
- a part of the brain that starts and coordinate movements; diseases of the cells leading into the basal ganglia include Parkinson’s disease that results in tremors
- Braden scale
- an assessment tool using six categories to determine pressure injury risk
- crepitus
- a grating sound produced by friction between bone and cartilage or bone and bone
- diascopy
- a test for determining how quickly the skin blanches under pressure
- genu varum
- bowing of legs
- hirsutism
- an abundance of hair in places where hair is normally scarce or absent
- integumentary system
- the body system that includes the skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, and nerves on the skin
- intoeing
- foot turned inward
- kyphosis
- an excessive outward curvature of the spine
- lordosis
- an excessive inward curvature of the spine
- muscle tone
- a measure of a muscle’s resistance to stretching while in a passive resting state
- musculoskeletal system
- the bones of the skeleton and the cartilages, ligaments, and other connective tissues and muscles
- osteoarthritis
- a degenerative joint disease resulting in chronic pain and often edema
- patch testing
- a skin test for allergies
- polyphenols
- beneficial plant compounds with antioxidant properties
- psoriatic arthritis
- a long-term inflammatory disease of the joints
- range of motion (ROM)
- reflects the client’s ability to move their joints actively or passively
- scoliosis
- a sideways curvature of the spine
- scraping
- a technique for obtaining superficial dead skin for testing
- tenting
- when the skin remains raised after being pinched on the back of the hand
- Tzanck testing
- a test used to diagnose viral disease with active vesicles
- vitiligo
- skin pigmentation disturbance
- wood light test
- a black light test used to diagnose lesions