This skin layer that is only found in thick parts on the palms of your hands
What is stratum lucidum?
The scientific name of sweat glands
What is a sudoriferous gland?
The outmost layer protecting the hair
What is the cuticle?
The nonvisible part of the nail
What is the nail matrix?
The arrangement of collagen in the dermis creates these.
What are lines of cleavage?
This pigment protects your skin from the sun.
What is melanin?
The scientific name of oil glands
The location at which hair is formed
The other name for "eponychium"
What is cuticle?
If melanin does not protect against harmful UV rays, this is the result.
List the layers of skin from the outside layer to the innermost layer.
What is epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis?
The specific sudoriferous gland found in armpits and the groin
What is apocrine gland?
The main protein found in hair and nails
This acts as the protective seal for the matrix underneath the nail
What is cuticle?
This structure creates your fingerprints
What is the dermal papillae?
The layer of skin that is constantly being shed
What is the stratum corneum?
Another name for oil
The part of the hair that sticks out of the skin
What is the hair shaft?
This means "little moon"
What is the lunula?
An individual is burned and can no longer feel how bad the burn is.
The 5 functions of the skin
What are protection, sensation, temperature regulation, excretion of sweat, and production of Vitamin D
The most common locations of holocrine sebaceous glands
What are the face, palms, feet, and hair?
List the 4 functions of hair
What are traps heat, alerts body to insects, protects from the sun, protects eyes, and prevents entry of foreign objects from entering the body?
Label C on the diagram
What is the free edge?
Use the Rule of Nines to determine the percentage of the body burned. A person is burned on their chest, back, and head/neck.
What is 27%
9% (chest) + 9% (back) + 9% (head/neck)