Clinical Diagnosis · Integumentary System · Easy
Scabies
Meaning: Contagious skin infestation by a mite that burrows into the outer skin layer to lay eggs.
In practice: Intense itching, worse at night, with burrows in finger web spaces, wrists and axillae; spreads by close contact.
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Answer: Tremor
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