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An abscess is a place of accumulation of the creamy white, yellow, or greenish fluid, known as pus, surrounded by reddened tissue. It is the result of the body's inflammatory response to a foreign ...
A furuncle is a bacterial or fungal infection of a hair follicle. The infected hair follicle can be on any part of the body. When the hair follicle becomes infected, the skin around it also becomes ...
Blisters are actually vesicles and bullae. Vesicles are circumscribed epidermal elevations in the skin containing clear fluid and mesuring less than 0.5 cm. in diameter. If the lesion has a diameter ...
A wheal is an evanescent rounded or flat-topped elevation in the skin that is edematous, and often erythematous. They may vary in size from a few mm. to a few cm. The shape may change and these ...
A plaque is an elevated area of skin 2 cm. or more in diameter. It may be formed by a coalescence of papules or nodules. The surface area is greater than its height. It is a plate-like lesion.
Nodules are forms of papules, but are larger and deeper. They may be located in the dermis or subcutaneous tissue, or in the epidermis. Nodules are usually 0.5 cm. or more in diameter.
A papule is a solid, elevated lesion with no visible fluid which may be up to 0.5cm. in diameter. The elevation may be accounted for by metabolic deposits, infiltrates, or hyperplasia of cellular ...