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A form of tuberculosis of the skin in which red spots appear on the face and become infected. Rare form of tuberculosis characterized by skin ulcers that heal slowly and leave deep scars. Tuberculous infection of the skin, usually due to direct inoculation of the tuberculosis bacillus into the skin. This type of lupus often…

An inflammatory disease of connective tissue of which the more serious, systemic, form affects the heart, joints and blood vessels. An autoimmune disease that affects the skin, joints, blood vessels, heart, kidneys, lungs, and brain. An autoimmune disorder in which the body mistakenly attacks the connective tissue in the body, often called systemic lupus erythematosus…

A curved white mark at the base of a fingernail. White, semilunar area of nail near the root. The whitish crescent-shaped area at the base of a nail. Visible part of the matrix that extends from underneath the living skin; it is the whitish, halfmoon shape at the base of the nail. The crescent-shaped white…

A chart for calculating the surface area of a burn.  

A mass of hard tissue which rises on the surface or under the surface of the skin.  

A joint at the bottom of the back between the lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum.  

Referring to both the lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum. To the loins (small-of-the-back area) and sacrum (the back part of the pelvis between the hips). Relating to part of the spine composed of the lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum. To the lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum. When referencing the lower portion of the backbone or…

Each of the five vertebrae between the thoracic vertebrae and the sacrum. There are five lumbar vertebrae in the lower spinal coluum between the thoracic vertebrae and the sacrum. One of the five vertebrae between the thoracic vertebrae and the sacrum.  

The wider part of the spinal cord in the lower spine, where the nerves of the lower limbs are attached.  

A subarachnoid space in the spinal cord, where the dura mater ends, filled with cerebrospinal fluid. In the subarachnoid space of the vertebral column, the fluid-filled space between the end of the spinal cord (vertebral level L1-L2 in adults) and the end of the arachnoid-dural membrane (vertebral level S2).