Melanin
Glands
Your Skin
Hair & Nails
Diseases/Disorders
100

These cells create melanin.

What are melanocytes.

100
Substance released from sebaceous glands that are activated at puberty. 

What is Sebum?

100

Tattoo ink must be injected below this layer. 

What is the basement membrane?

100

Where mitosis is happening in hair and nails. 

What is the matrix?

100

Caused by the herpes virus and causes a sore that is often found on the lips and is triggered by stress.  

What is a cold sore. 

200

Is easily broken down by UV light. 

What is folate?

200
Gland that is not attached to hair and only releases water and salts. 

What is Eccrine?

200

Where Adipose tissue is found. 

What is the hypodermis?

200

The nail plate is below it. 

What is the nail bed?

200

A mutation often caused by exposure to UV light causes this cancer and leads to irregular looking moles. 

What is Melanoma?

300

Requires UV light to be produced.

What is Vitamin D?

300

Attached to hair follicles and secretes sweat that is mixed with fatty acids and proteins but only after a person has reached puberty. 

What is Apocrine?

300

Where nerves, collagen, and elastin are found. 

What is the Dermis?

300

A muscle responsible for goosebumps that is attached to each hair follicle. 

What is the arrector pili muscle?

300

This protein has a mutation in it and causes the epidermis and dermis to rub against each other and blisters to form. 

What is Collagen VII (7)?

400

A person with high levels of this who lives in a place with little UV should take Vitamin D supplements. 

What is Eumelanin?
400

Two types of glands that are attached to hair and are activated after puberty. 

What is Apocrine and Sebaceous?

400

Where mitosis is happening in the stratified squamous epithelial tissue. 

What is the Stratum Basal?

400
Where the nail attaches to the epidermis near the free edge. 

What is the hyponychium?

400

A disease caused by a fungus that grows well in warm, wet places and is easily spread through contact. 

What is Athlete's Foot?

500
A nutient required to make healthy sperm and in developing embryos. 

What is folate?

500

When the body too cold. 

What is hypothermia?

500
The top layer of the stratified squamous epithelial tissue.

What is the Stratum Corneum?

500

Skin that seals the nail plate and covers the lunula.

What is the cuticle?

500

Caused by bacteria entering a break in the skin and causing painful swelling and red streaks around the wound.

What is Cellulitis?

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