The body's way of keeping equilibrium (adherence to a set point or range)
Social determinants of health, such as transportation, literacy, higher education, support systems, provider availability, income, employment, support, etc all contribute to lower income neighborhoods having a lower access or knowledge of what kinds of screenings?
What is cancer?
What is supine position?
The study of microscopic cell anatomy.
A third degree burn impacts these layers of the skin.
What is the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis?
The body's response in an attempt to regain homeostasis.
What is an effector?
What is higher education?
Region of the head and neck.
What is the cephalic region?
A fluid connective tissue that runs through tubes of epithelial tissue and transports vital nutrients throughout the body.
What is blood?
Vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder in which these types of cells responsible for creating pigment in the skin are destroyed by the immune system, leading to patches of skin with a lack of pigmentation.
What are melanocytes?
What muscle activates in order to raise the hair follicle to trap heat near the body during a cold thermoregulation negative feedback response?
What are the erector pilli?
The primary cause for a lack of health coverage in social determinants of health.
What is income?
The cavity of the body found directly proximal to the abdominal region?
Formed from dense regular fibrous connective tissue, these bands connect muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
What is DNA? What is apoptosis?
What kind of feedback loop is triggered by oxytocin and the contraction of cervical muscles during pregnancy?
____ is not the same as ____ due to ___ being the experience of the _____ as shaped by individual response and cultural approach to _____, while _____ is the measurable disordered function of the body.
What is illness vs disease?
The metacarpals are proximal to this set of bones.
What are the phalanges?
The two layers found within the dermis, one contains ridges, while the other is connective tissue that lies beneath.
What is papillary and reticular?
This is caused by regions of the skin producing too much keratinocytes.
What is psoriasis?
After an injury, inflammation is triggered by mast cells that release this chemical in order to paracrine signal to fibroblasts, lymphocytes, vascular and nervous cells.
What is prostaglandin?
This social determinant of health is directly responsible for health disparities in regards to treating and recognizing skin disorders in people with darker skin, due to the dismissal of people with darker skin as being not worth treating in history.
What is discrimination?
The organ system that provides the function of fluid balance within the body.
The thick epidermis layer that starts the production of keratohyalin.
What is the stratum spinosum?
What is necrosis?