Hair and Nails
Diseases of the Skin
Nervous System Diseases
Parts of the Skin
Parts of the Brain
100
The white, half-mooned shape area at the bottom of your nail. It is the area of cell growth.
What is the lunala?
100
A virus infects the skin, and causes the skin to grow excessively.
What is a wart?
100
Pressure in the eyes. It is not very painful. Results in vision loss.
What is glaucoma?
100
The three layers of the skin.
What are the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous (hypodermis)?
100
A part of the brain that regulates balance, gait, posture, fine movement coordination, equilibrium, and muscle tone.
What is the cerebellum?
200
The part of the nail that is not connected to the finger.
What is the free edge?
200
A small bubble of skin filled with serum caused by friction, burning or other damage.
What is a blister?
200
A condition that is caused by the cerebellum not getting enough oxygen. It's symptoms are seizures, speech, mental retardation, and lack of muscle coordination.
What is cerebral palsy?
200
The two main sweat glands.
What is sudoriferous and apocrine?
200
This part of the brains is made up of thalamus, hypothalamus, medulla oblongata, and pons. It controls alertness, arousal, breathing, blood pressure, digestion, heart rate.
What is the brain stem?
300
The two main parts of a strand of hair.
What are the hair shaft and hair root?
300
The iflammation of the sebaceous gland ducts.
What is acne?
300
This disease gives you a fever, chills, and blisters on your body. It is also known as the chicken pox virus.
What is shingles?
300
The fatty tissue that the subcutaneous (hypodermis) layer is made up of.
What is adipose tissue?
300
The part of the brain that controls heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
400
The scientific name for the cuticle.
What is the eponychium?
400
These are raised, red, itchy patches on the skin that arise suddenly. They normally result from an allergic reaction.
What are hives?
400
A form of dementia that occurs slowly. The first symptoms are of thid diease are short term memory loss, irritablility, and seeing delusions. It progressively becomes worse over time, resulting in people not being able to take care of themselves, and eventually death.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
400
The cells that are important in immune response. They are formed in the bone marrow, and rise to the epidermis.
What are Langerhans cells?
400
This part of the brain monitors hunger, thirst, and sleep.
What is the hypothalamus?
500
The three phases of hair growth.
What are the anagen phase, the catagen phase, and the telogen phase?
500
This disease is caused by the loss of myelin in nerve cells. It has very widespread and vague symptoms that include numbness, tingling, muscle pain or spasms, balance issues, slurred speech, trouble swallowing, and double vision.
What is multiple sclerosis?
500
The five stratum of the epidermis
What are the stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum lucidum, and stratum corneum?
500
This area of the brain is important for comprehension of auditory impulses and producing meaningful speech.
What is the Wernicke's area?
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