Electrolysis & Laser Final Exam Study
Guide
Following the rules of Universal Precautions requires the following practice? -
✔️consider all patients potentially infectious
What layer of the skin stores fat and acts as a protective cushion? -
✔️subcutis
An excess production of cortisol is indicative of what syndrome? -
✔️Cushing's Syndrome
The process of cell division is known as? -
✔️mitosis
Which is NOT a characteristic of a viral disease? -
✔️A. Contain a protein coat
B. Highly contagious such as warts
C. can only reproduce within a living host
D. easily treated with antibiotics
D.
The use of excessive laser fluency may result in? -
✔️Purpura
Retinal hazard is possible at which of the following wavelengths? -
✔️400-1400 nm
What disease is inactive of a low level of cortisol production? -
✔️Addison's Disease
The dermis consists of what two(2) layers? -
✔️papillary and reticular layer
What portion of the hair is above the surface? -
✔️shaft
The term used to express potential difference is? -
✔️A. electrical difference
B. volt
C. force
D. all of the above
D
, Apocrine glands excrete? -
✔️pheromones
Several characteristics of Cushing's syndrome are? -
✔️moon face, dowager's hump, hirsutism
Most thermolysis epilators use of frequency of? -
✔️13.56 megahertz
Which is the primary reason that multiple treatments are necessary in laser hair
removal? -
✔️not all follicles are in the optimum growth stage
A joule is defined as? -
✔️a watt per second
At what stage is hair actively growing? -
✔️anagen
Static electricity is? -
✔️electricity at rest
This type of probe has a covering on the upper shaft to aid in reducing surface
damage? -
✔️insulated
What is NOT a requirement for electrology establishment? -
✔️two(2) waste receptacles per station
An example of a subjective symptom is? -
✔️itching
The secretion of foul smelling sweat due to bacterial breakdown of the apocrine
glands is known as? -
✔️osmidrosis
The concentration of HF current at the tip of the probe is known as? -
✔️point effect
The Blend uses combination of hat two(2) currents? -
✔️galvanic & thermolysis
Electrons are pushed through a conductor by? -
✔️volts
The shortest epilation time using the highest current possible that a client can
tolerate is known as? -
✔️working point
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