A patient with cancer is experiencing hair loss from chemotherapy treatments. Which of the following terms would the nurse use to document this finding?
a. Keratopenia
b. Ecchymosis
c. Allopathy
d. Alopecia
ANS: D
Hair loss is called alopecia. Allopathy is a system of medicine. Ecchymosis is bruising. Keratopenia is not a medical term.
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