Notes on Skin, Hair, and Nail Vocabulary

A good understanding of vocabulary words in pharmacy is very important for communication with professors, fellow students, patients, and coworkers. Knowledge of understanding leads to successful communication and success as a pharmacy student, as a pharmacy technician, and as a practicing pharmacist. Skin Vocabulary abscess acne birthmark black nail black toe blister boils break out bruise bump chigger clear up cracked crusty cyst dermatitis diaper rash dry eczema excrete flaky gash hangnail hives inflammation irritation itch keloid most mole ooze patch pimple pins and needles prickly heat rash psoriasis pus pustules rupture scabies scabs scales scar scrape scratch shingles

sore spider bite ulcers wart wound wrinkles zit Hair Vocabulary alopecia coarse dandruff dry fine hair loss head lice oily scalp silky Nail Vocabulary Black nail Black toe Brittle clubbing cuticle floating fungal infection ingrown nail peeling nail splitting nail Parts of Speech

Noun (n) a blister a boil brittleness a bruise a bump a crack a crust dryness eczema excretion flake, flakiness inflammation irritation, irritant

Infinitive/Verb (v) --Past Tense to blister, blistered to boil, boiled to bruise, bruised to bump, bumped to crack, cracked to crust, crusted to dry, dried to excrete, excreted to flake, flaked to inflame, inflamed to irritate, irritated

Adjective (adj) blistery boiling, boiled brittle bruised bumpy cracked, cracking crusty, crusting dry, dried, drying eczematous excreted flaky inflamed, inflammatory irritable, irritated,

Adverb (adv)

brittle

dryly

flakily

irritably

itch, itchiness laceration moistness oil, oiliness ooze a patch a pimple psoriasis pus a rupture a scab a scar a scrape a sore sweat a swell an ulcer, an ulceration a wound
Idiomatic Expressions

to itch, itched to lacerate, lacerated to moisten, moistened to oil, oiled to ooze, oozed to patch, patched

irritating itchy, itching lacerated moist oily, oiled oozy patchy, patched pimply, pimpled pussy rupturing, ruptured scabby, scabbed scarred, scarring scraped sore sweaty, sweating swollen, swelling, swelled ulcerated wounded, wounding

moistly

pimplier psoriatic

to rupture, ruptured to scab, scabbed to scar, scarred to scrape, scraped to sweat, sweated to swell, swelled

sorely sweatily

to wound, wounded

Idiomatic Expressions using Skin 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. By the skin of his teeth To be thick skinned To get under my skin To make my skin crawl To be skin deep

Idiomatic Expressions using Hair 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. To get in my hair To let my hair down To tear my hair out To keep your hair on Make your hairs stand on end

Idiomatic Expressions using Nail 1. 2. To be hard as nails or tough as nails To be nail biting