Homeostasis
The physiological value around which the normal range fluctuates
The movement of substances across a cell membrane with no energy expenditure.
What is passive transport?
Produces voluntary movement
What is skeletal muscle tissue?
This tissue type makes up the epidermis
Epithelium
Increase in number of irregular cells.
What is dysplasia?
A change in the internal or external environment
What is a stimulus?
This transportation type uses ATP.
What is active transport?
Maintains a semi-permeable membrane
What is the phospholipid bilayer?
This layer is the defining difference between thick skin and thin skin
Stratum Lucidum
What is necrosis?
Monitors and sends information to effector organs to control the body’s response.
What is a control center?
The diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
The first phases of mitosis
What is prophase?
The shape Langerhans cells and melanocytes share is
Controlled cell death.
What is apoptosis?
Occurs when a system's output acts to reduce the processes that lead to the output of that system, resulting in less output
What is negative feedback?
A ___ moves specific solutes across a cell membrane.
What is a carrier protein?
Increases temperature, pain, and permeability in the healing process.
What is inflammation?
The defining protein of stratum lucidum is
eleidin
The sequences of changes that tissues undergo involve shape and number, which can lead to cancer.
What is hyperplasia > dysplasia > cancer?
A sensor that monitors the body's conditions and alerts the system when there's a deviation from the set point.
What is a receptor?
A long-distance signaling that uses hormones to transmit signals
Makes more nail plate cells.
What is the nail matrix?
The epidermis layers in thick skin are ordered from top to bottom.
stratum corneum
Stratum lucidum
Stratum granulosum
stratum spinosum
stratum Basale
The process that creates specialized cells from stem cells.
What is differentiation?