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From the Ted Talk by Jenna C. Lester: Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones

Unscramble the Blue Letters

This is erythema migrans, a hallmark fraeute of Lyme deisase, a tick-borne illness persnet in over 80 countries and estimated to affect 476,000 peolpe in the United States each year. Dermatologists like me are docrtos of the skin trained to diagnose and treat skin disease. And this is how we're trained to see erythema migrans, as a bullseye-shaped rash that ranges from red to pink. But this is not at all what it looks like in dark skin. As you can see here, there are hues of violet, of magenta, and even dark bworn.

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This is erythema migrans, a hallmark _______ of Lyme _______, a tick-borne illness _______ in over 80 countries and estimated to affect 476,000 ______ in the United States each year. Dermatologists like me are _______ of the skin trained to diagnose and treat skin disease. And this is how we're trained to see erythema migrans, as a bullseye-shaped rash that ranges from red to pink. But this is not at all what it looks like in dark skin. As you can see here, there are hues of violet, of magenta, and even dark _____.

Solution

  1. disease
  2. people
  3. present
  4. feature
  5. brown
  6. doctors

Original Text

This is erythema migrans, a hallmark feature of Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness present in over 80 countries and estimated to affect 476,000 people in the United States each year. Dermatologists like me are doctors of the skin trained to diagnose and treat skin disease. And this is how we're trained to see erythema migrans, as a bullseye-shaped rash that ranges from red to pink. But this is not at all what it looks like in dark skin. As you can see here, there are hues of violet, of magenta, and even dark brown.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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dark skin 9
skin disease 5
lyme disease 2
erythema migrans 2
dermatology residents 2
uncomfortable diagnosing 2
diagnosing skin 2
health care 2
care disparities 2
skin tone 2
skin tones 2
sexually transmitted 2
medical students 2

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collocation frequency
diagnosing skin disease 2
health care disparities 2

Important Words

  1. affect
  2. brown
  3. countries
  4. dark
  5. dermatologists
  6. diagnose
  7. disease
  8. doctors
  9. erythema
  10. estimated
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  12. hallmark
  13. hues
  14. illness
  15. lyme
  16. magenta
  17. migrans
  18. people
  19. pink
  20. present
  21. ranges
  22. rash
  23. red
  24. skin
  25. states
  26. trained
  27. treat
  28. united
  29. violet
  30. year