Nursing 133 exam 4 questions n
correct answers graded A+ 2025/2026
Macule - correct answer ✔✔Flat, circumscribed area that is a change in the color of the skin;
less than 1 cm in diameter
Angioma - correct answer ✔✔Benign tumor consisting of a mass of small blood vessels; can
vary in size from very small to large
Atrophy - correct answer ✔✔Thinning of the skin surface and loss of skin markings; skin appears
translucent and paperlike
Bulla - correct answer ✔✔Vesicle greater than 1 cm in diameter
Capillary Hemangioma (Nevus Flammeus) - correct answer ✔✔Type of angioma that involves
the capillaries within the skin producing an irregular macular patch that can vary from light red
to dark red to purple in color
Crust - correct answer ✔✔Dried drainage or blood; slightly elevated; variable size; colors
variable-red, black, tan, or mixed
Cyst - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, circumscribed, encapsulated lesion; in dermis or
subcutaneous layer; filled with liquid or semisolid material
Ecchymosis (Bruise) - correct answer ✔✔Reddish-purple, nonblanchable spot of variable size
, Erosion - correct answer ✔✔Loss of part of the epidermis; depressed, moist, glistening; follows
rupture or a vesicle or bulla
Excoriation - correct answer ✔✔Loss of the epidermis; linear hollowed-out crusted area
Examples: Abrasion or scratch, scabies
Fissure - correct answer ✔✔Linear crack or break from the epidermis to the dermis; may be
most or dry
Keloid - correct answer ✔✔Irregular-shaped, elevated, progressively enlarging scar; grows
beyond the boundaries of the wound
Lichenification - correct answer ✔✔Rough, thickened epidermis secondary to persistent
rubbing, itching, or skin irritation; often involves flexor surface of extremity
Papule - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, firm, circumscribed area less than 1 cm in diameter
example: wart (verruca), elevated moles, lichen planus, cherry angioma, neurofibroma, skin tag
Nodule - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, firm, circumscribed lesion; deeper in dermis than a
papule; 1 to 2 cm in diameter
Patch - correct answer ✔✔A flat, nonpalpable, irregular-shaped macule more than 1 cm in
diameter
Petechiae - correct answer ✔✔Tiny, flat, reddish-purple, nonblanchable spots in the skin less
than 0.5 cm in diameter; appear as tiny red spots pinpoint to pinhead in size
Plaque - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, firm, and rough lesion with flat top surface greater than 1
cm in diameter
correct answers graded A+ 2025/2026
Macule - correct answer ✔✔Flat, circumscribed area that is a change in the color of the skin;
less than 1 cm in diameter
Angioma - correct answer ✔✔Benign tumor consisting of a mass of small blood vessels; can
vary in size from very small to large
Atrophy - correct answer ✔✔Thinning of the skin surface and loss of skin markings; skin appears
translucent and paperlike
Bulla - correct answer ✔✔Vesicle greater than 1 cm in diameter
Capillary Hemangioma (Nevus Flammeus) - correct answer ✔✔Type of angioma that involves
the capillaries within the skin producing an irregular macular patch that can vary from light red
to dark red to purple in color
Crust - correct answer ✔✔Dried drainage or blood; slightly elevated; variable size; colors
variable-red, black, tan, or mixed
Cyst - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, circumscribed, encapsulated lesion; in dermis or
subcutaneous layer; filled with liquid or semisolid material
Ecchymosis (Bruise) - correct answer ✔✔Reddish-purple, nonblanchable spot of variable size
, Erosion - correct answer ✔✔Loss of part of the epidermis; depressed, moist, glistening; follows
rupture or a vesicle or bulla
Excoriation - correct answer ✔✔Loss of the epidermis; linear hollowed-out crusted area
Examples: Abrasion or scratch, scabies
Fissure - correct answer ✔✔Linear crack or break from the epidermis to the dermis; may be
most or dry
Keloid - correct answer ✔✔Irregular-shaped, elevated, progressively enlarging scar; grows
beyond the boundaries of the wound
Lichenification - correct answer ✔✔Rough, thickened epidermis secondary to persistent
rubbing, itching, or skin irritation; often involves flexor surface of extremity
Papule - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, firm, circumscribed area less than 1 cm in diameter
example: wart (verruca), elevated moles, lichen planus, cherry angioma, neurofibroma, skin tag
Nodule - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, firm, circumscribed lesion; deeper in dermis than a
papule; 1 to 2 cm in diameter
Patch - correct answer ✔✔A flat, nonpalpable, irregular-shaped macule more than 1 cm in
diameter
Petechiae - correct answer ✔✔Tiny, flat, reddish-purple, nonblanchable spots in the skin less
than 0.5 cm in diameter; appear as tiny red spots pinpoint to pinhead in size
Plaque - correct answer ✔✔Elevated, firm, and rough lesion with flat top surface greater than 1
cm in diameter
