Responsible for:
- Barrier
- Protection
- Thermoregulation
- Energy storage
- Vitamin D synthesis
What are the functions of skin?
A system of beliefs for making sense of the world.
When a person is facing you straight on with their palms facing toward you and their spine is aligned in a straight line with no head turning.
What is anatomical position?
These are the four junctions are found in between two cells?
What are tight, adherens, gap, and desmosomes?
The body is mainly made up of what tissue?
This type of skin is guaranteed to produce the protein eleidin, which plays a role in waterproofing the epidermis.
What is "Thick" skin?
A term that refers to favoring one group, idea, or individual over another leading to unfair judgements or decisions.
What is bias?
This is the type of plane that an MRI scan would usually produce in a full body scan.
What is a transverse plane?
These proteins can be found within the Extracellular matrix?
What is Collagen and Fibronectin?
This specific type of epithelial tissue is found in the Cillia of the small intestine.
What is simple columnar epithelium?
This is the cell type responsible for producing melanin from tyrosine in specialized organelles called melanosomes?
What are Melanocytes?
This provides people what they need to reach fair outcomes, rather than giving everyone the same thing.
What is equality?
The tibia is ____ to the femur.
What is distal?
Hemidesmosomes anchor epithelial cells to which structure?
What is the basement membrane?
This type of tissue is responsible for rhythmic contractions with visible striations, and has intercalated discs.
What is Cardiac Muscle?
A burn victim is admitted into the ER. Superficial burns located on the chest and upper back, bilateral arm burns, and the left leg. Estimate what percent of the body is burned.
What is 54%?
These are the non-medical factors that shape a person's overall health outcomes and are a contributing factor to health inequalities across different populations.
What are the social determinants of health?
A right leg and right arm are considered what?
What is ipsilateral?
_______ _________ are primarily involved in sealing epithelial surfaces to prevent leakage between cells.
What are tight junctions?
This is a tiny junction between neurons that allows signals to pass from one cell to the next using neurotransmitters.
What is synapse?
When getting your hair colored, the _______ opens or swells so that the permanent color is deposited in the ______. The conditioners are then used after treatment to close the ______.
What is cuticle, cortex and cuticle?
This overarching framework shapes how people understand reality, knowledge, and meaning, including their ontology, epistemology, assumptions, scripts, and core beliefs.
What is a worldview?
These organs are found in the thoracic cavity?
What are the lungs, heart, and mediastinum?
This channel opens based on the binding of another molecule that doesn't move through the channel?
What are Ligand-gated channels
This protein in cells is responsible for apoptosis and without the cell will go through necrosis.
What is caspase?