Milady Esthetic State Board Exam Review 2023, Exams of Biology

Download Milady Esthetic State Board Exam Review 2023 and more Exams Biology in PDF only on Docsity! Milady Esthetic State board Exam Review 2023(Solutions) 1. Efficacy - ✓✓✓A term that refers to the ability to produce an effect? 2. Bactericidal - ✓✓✓A term that indicates that a product is capable of destroying a bacteria. 3. Natural Immunity - ✓✓✓Term that refers to a resistance to disease that is partly inherited and partly developed through healthy living. 4. What is scabies? - ✓✓✓A contagious disease caused by the itch mite. 5. What does porous mean? - ✓✓✓Made or constructed of a material that has openings. 6. What are bacilli? - ✓✓✓Short, rod shaped bacteria. 7. What are staphylococci? - ✓✓✓Pus forming bacterial that grow in clusters like a bunch of grapes. 8. What are flagella? - ✓✓✓Slender hairlike extensions used by parasites for locomotion. 9. What are Mycobacterium Fortuitum? - ✓✓✓A microscopic germ that normally exists in tap water in small numbers. 10. What is methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus? - ✓✓✓Type of infectious bacteria that is highly resistant to antibiotics. 11. What is the responsibility of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)? - ✓✓✓Registering all types of disinfectants sold and used in the US. 12. What happened in 1985 that triggered the creation of Universal Precautions - ✓✓✓Aids public health crisis. 13. What is the responsibility of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)? - ✓✓✓Studying diseases and providing guidance to prevent their spread. 14. What is trichology? - ✓✓✓Scientific study of hair and its diseases. 15. What is lanugo? - ✓✓✓Very soft and downy hair on a fetus. 32. Salon peels should be a pH of (blank) - ✓✓✓3.0 or higher 33. What class of medical devices are lasers and IPL machines? - ✓✓✓IV 34. What type of LED light is used for rejuvenation? - ✓✓✓Infrared 35. What condition is a contraindication for microcurrent? - ✓✓✓Epilepsy 36. Laser Resurfacing - ✓✓✓Procedure used to smooth wrinkles or lighten acne scars 37. What can cause skin conditions? - ✓✓✓Internal and external factors 38. What is the most common skin condition estheticians see today? - ✓✓✓Adult acne, problems from hormonal fluctuations, actinic aging. 39. What condition is characterized by redness and distended capillaries caused by weakening of the capillary walls? - ✓✓✓Telangiectasia 40. What term refers to oiliness of the skin? - ✓✓✓Seborrhea 41. What is the main external cause of aging? - ✓✓✓Sun damage 42. What SPF is recommended when selecting a sunscreen? - ✓✓✓30 43. What is an occlusive product? - ✓✓✓This is thick and lays on top of the skin to reduce transepidermal water loss. 44. What is the Glogau scale? - ✓✓✓This evaluates photodamage based on wrinkling categorized by age. 45. What is the most common magnifying lamp magnification? - ✓✓✓5 diopters 46. What is considered to be the most important machine in esthetics? - ✓✓✓Steamer 47. What are the 2 most common types of electrodes used with galvanic machines? - ✓✓✓Flat and roller 48. What does cataphoresis do? - ✓✓✓Calm or soothe nerve endings 49. What is an example of a barrier agent found in many foundations? - ✓✓✓Silicone 50. The ideal oval face is approximately (blank) as wide as it is long. - ✓✓✓Three-fourths 51. For what feature would you apply a lighter foundation along the hairline and blend onto the forehead? - ✓✓✓Narrow forehead 52. Where on the eye should you start when removing artificial eyelashes? - ✓✓✓Outer corner 53. What should be located in each treatment room for disinfecting tools and equipment? - ✓✓✓Wet disinfectant 54. What is an example of a facial supply? - ✓✓✓Mask brush 55. What type of water should be used in a steamer? - ✓✓✓Distilled 72. What type of muscle functions automatically and is found in the digestive system? - ✓✓✓Nonstriated 73. What nerve affects the side of the neck and platysma muscle? - ✓✓✓Cervical 74. What controls insulin and glucagon production? - ✓✓✓Pancreas 75. What is the range of the pH scale? - ✓✓✓0 - 14 76. What does anaphoresis do? - ✓✓✓Stimulate and irritate the nerves 77. What 3 qualities must disinfectants used in salons, spas and medical facilities have? - ✓✓✓Bactericidal, virucidal and fungicidal 78. What form of decontamination is NOT recommended for use in salons or spas? - ✓✓✓Dry heat sterilization 79. What part of the nervous system controls the involuntary muscles? - ✓✓✓Autonomic nervous system 80. What are the functions of the lymphatic system? - ✓✓✓To develop immunities, to destroy disease causing microorganisms and to drain tissue spaces of excess interstitial fluid. 81. What type of UV rays are known as burning rays? - ✓✓✓UVB 82. What stimulates melanin production? - ✓✓✓Exposure to sunlight 83. What body system do vascular lesions involve? - ✓✓✓Circulatory 84. Why are the acid mantle and barrier function not as healthy in dry skin? - ✓✓✓Due to lack of lipids 85. Where must you apply pressure when performing extractions? - ✓✓✓Skin surrounding the follicular wall 86. When using a lancet for extractions, what angle should it be inserted? - ✓✓✓35 degrees 87. What set of practices replaced Universal Precautions in 1996? - ✓✓✓Standard Precautions 88. What is true of CPR? - ✓✓✓It is a basic element every esthetician should know. 89. How many levels of burns are there? - ✓✓✓Four 90. What is pus? - ✓✓✓A fluid created by infection. 91. What is occupational disease? - ✓✓✓Illness related to conditions associated with employment. 92. What part of the body does tinea pedis affect? - ✓✓✓Feet 93. What disease is caused by bacteria transmitted through coughing or sneezing? - ✓✓✓Tuberculosis 94. What is a microorganism? - ✓✓✓Any organism of microscopic or submicroscopic size. 95. When should you apply a mask, eyewear, and gown according to Standard Precautions? - ✓✓✓If the splashing of body fluids is likely. 112. What are toxins? - ✓✓✓Various poisonous substances produced by some microorganisms. 113. What is another name for sun spots? - ✓✓✓Tinea Versicolor 114. What is a systemic disease? - ✓✓✓Disease that affects the body as a whole. 115. How much blood does the human body contain? - ✓✓✓8- 10 pints 116. What nutritive fluid flows through the circulatory system? - ✓✓✓Blood 117. What are platelets? - ✓✓✓Blood components that contribute to the blood clotting process. 118. What is another term for white blood cells? - ✓✓✓Leukocytes 119. What is histology? - ✓✓✓The study of tiny structures found in living tissues. 120. What is protoplasm? - ✓✓✓Substance of which the cells of all living things are composed. 121. What is mitosis? - ✓✓✓The process of cell reproduction. 122. What is the sternum? - ✓✓✓Flat bone that forms the ventral support of the ribs. 123. What part of the hand is supplied by the radial nerve and it's branches? - ✓✓✓Back 124. What is the fluid part of the blood and lymph that carries food and secretions to the cells and carbon dioxide from the cells? - ✓✓✓Plasma 125. What is true of the origin part of a muscle? - ✓✓✓It is attached to the skeleton. 126. What are organs? - ✓✓✓Structures composed of specialized tissues and perform specific functions. 127. What is the function of the parathyroid gland? - ✓✓✓It regulates blood calcium and phosphorus levels so the nervous and muscular systems can function properly. 128. What is true of the pituitary gland? - ✓✓✓It is the most complex organ of the endocrine system. 129. What is the pancreas and it's functions? - ✓✓✓It is an organ in the endocrine system that secretes enzyme producing cells that are responsible for digesting carbohydrates, proteins and fats. 130. What are hormones? - ✓✓✓Secretions that the endocrine glands release directly into the bloodstream and that influence the welfare of the entire body. 131. What is osteology? - ✓✓✓Study of the bones 132. What is the primary function of the lymphatic/ immune system? - ✓✓✓Protects the body from disease 133. What is the primary function of the skeletal system? - ✓✓✓Provides the physical foundation of the body. 134. What is the primary function of the circulatory system? - ✓✓✓Moves blood through the body. 135. What is covered, shaped and supported by the muscular system? - ✓✓✓Skeletal tissue 152. What organ circulates the blood? - ✓✓✓Heart 153. What carries messages to and from the brain and controls and coordinates all body functions? - ✓✓✓Nerve tissue 154. The (blank) consists of two bones that form the bridge of the nose. - ✓✓✓Nasal 155. Largest and strongest bone in the face. - ✓✓✓Mandible 156. What is formed by the 12 pairs of bones in the ribs? - ✓✓✓Thorax 157. What does the thorax do? - ✓✓✓Serves as the protective framework for the heart, lungs and other internal organs. 158. What are small vessels that connect capillaries to veins? - ✓✓✓Venules 159. What are veins? - ✓✓✓Thin walled blood vessels that are less elastic than arteries. 160. What gland controls how quickly the body burns energy and makes proteins? - ✓✓✓Thyroid gland 161. What supplies oxygen to the blood? - ✓✓✓Lungs 162. What is the function of the liver? - ✓✓✓Removes waste created by digestion. 163. What organ aids the intestines in the digestion of food? - ✓✓✓Stomach 164. What is ingestion? - ✓✓✓The term for taking food into the body. 165. What is the natural pH of the skin? - ✓✓✓5.5 166. What term refers to substances with a pH below 7.0? - ✓✓✓Acidic 167. What is myology? - ✓✓✓Study of the nature, structure, function and disease of muscles. 168. What is angiology? - ✓✓✓Medical specialty which studies the diseases of the circulatory system and lymphatic system. 169. What is physiology? - ✓✓✓Study of the functions and activities performed by the body structures. 170. What is fungi? - ✓✓✓Microscopic plant parasites that can produce contagious diseases. 171. What are levels of infection control? - ✓✓✓Cleaning / sanitizing, disinfection, sterilization. 172. What are methods of infection control? - ✓✓✓Using heat and chemical agents 173. What is disinfection? - ✓✓✓The process that eliminates most but not all microorganisms on nonporous surfaces. 174. What is sanitizing? - ✓✓✓A chemical process for reducing the number of disease causing germs on cleaned surfaces to a safe level. 175. What is not an element of the skins acid mantle? - ✓✓✓Blood 176. What are the items in the dermis that respond to touch, pain, cold, heat etc? - ✓✓✓Sensory nerve endings 194. What is the common name of the stratum granulosum? - ✓✓✓Granular layer 195. What forms the cells in the stratum granulosum that resemble granules? - ✓✓✓Keratin 196. What is another name for subcutaneous layer of the skin? - ✓✓✓Hypodermis 197. What part of the skin provides a protective cushion and energy storage for the body? - ✓✓✓Subcutaneous layer 198. Another name for subcutis tissue is (blank)? - ✓✓✓Adipose tissue 199. What are the glands that excrete perspiration, regulate body temperature and detoxify the body? - ✓✓✓Sudoriferous 200. What do T-cells do? - ✓✓✓Identify molecules that have foreign peptides, and help to regulate immune response. 201. What causes transepidermal water loss? - ✓✓✓Evaporation 202. UVA rays are.... - ✓✓✓Aging rays 203. UVB rays are.... - ✓✓✓Burning rays 204. What is the dermis? - ✓✓✓Support layer below the epidermis 205. What are eccrine glands? - ✓✓✓Sweat glands 206. What protein fiber is found in the dermis and gives skin its flexibility and firmness? - ✓✓✓Elastin 207. What is true of the epidermis? - ✓✓✓It is the outermost layer of the skin 208. Fibroblasts - ✓✓✓Perform the function of stimulating cells, collagen and amino acids that form proteins. 209. What function does the enzyme tyrosinase perform? - ✓✓✓Stimulates melanocytes thus producing melanin 210. The body produces melanin called eumelanin and (blank)? - ✓✓✓Pheomelanin 211. How many times thicker than the epidermis is the dermis? - ✓✓✓25 times 212. When do free radicals produce more free radicals? - ✓✓✓While causing oxidation reactions. 213. What are keratinocytes? - ✓✓✓Epidermal cells composed of keratin, lipids and other protein. 214. Where in the skin are lymph vessels located? - ✓✓✓Dermis 215. What protein determines hair, eye and skin color? - ✓✓✓Melanin 216. What are melanocytes? - ✓✓✓Cells that produce skin pigment granules in the basal layer. 217. What is the top layer of the dermis? - ✓✓✓Papillary layer of the skin 218. What is the deepest layer of the dermis? - ✓✓✓Reticular layer of the skin 219. What is a lesion? - ✓✓✓Any mark, wound or abnormality. 236. Telogen - ✓✓✓Final phase, resting phase, of hair cycle that lasts until the fully grown hair is shed. 237. Microdermabrasion - ✓✓✓Form of mechanical dermabrasion 238. Microcurrent - ✓✓✓An extremely low level of electricity that mirrors the body's natural electrical impulses. 239. LED therapy - ✓✓✓Light emitting diode, which is a device used to reduce acne, increase circulation and improve collagen. 240. High Frequency Machine - ✓✓✓Apparatus that utilizes alternating current to produce a heat effect. 241. Woods lamp - ✓✓✓Filtered black light that is used to illuminate skin disorders, fungi, bacterial disorders and pigmentation. 242. Verruca - ✓✓✓Aka wart, hypertrophy of the papillae and epidermis caused by a virus, infectious and contagious. 243. Keratoma - ✓✓✓Superficial patch of epidermis, callus. 244. Closed comedo - ✓✓✓Whitehead 245. Open comedo - ✓✓✓Blackhead 246. Friction - ✓✓✓Deep rubbing movement, chucking, rolling, wringing. 247. Tapotement - ✓✓✓Movements consisting of short, quick tapping. 248. Effleurage - ✓✓✓Light continuous stroking movements, slow, rhythmic 249. Petrissage - ✓✓✓Kneading movement, lifting, squeezing and pressing with a light firm pressure. 250. Examples of chemical exfoliation are? - ✓✓✓AHA, BHA and enzymes 251. Examples of physical exfoliation are? - ✓✓✓Scrubs, brushing, microdermabrasion 252.