Layers of Skin
The layer of skin with keratinized epithelial cells
The gland that produce waste secretions that can also cool down the body.
What is sweat or sudoriferous glands?
Layers of skin affected by a 2nd degree burn.
What is the epidermis and dermis?
The general term for disease causing organisms that attack the body
What are pathogens?
The vaccine required for Juniors in High school in the state of Kansas.
What is the Meningitis Vaccine?
the layer of skin that is technically not considered "skin"
What is Hypodermis
The gland that waterproofs the skin?
What is the oil or sebacious gland?
The main cause of skin cancer.
What is UV rays (ultraviolet radiation)?
The chemical released from Mast cells that cause an immune response.
What is Histamine?
the part of a cell that identifies it as "self" or "foreign".
What is an antigen?
They layer of skin that contains most of the accessory organs and functions of the integumentary system.
What is the Dermis?
The name of the muscle that is attached to hair follicles and causes goosebumps.
What is the arrector pili?
The most aggressive and life threatening form of skin cancer.
What is melanoma?
The type of cell that absorbs and kills pathogens
What are Macrophages?
The type of protein produced by B cells that highlight pathogens for immune cells to target.
What are antibodies?
The nemonic gone over in class to remember the layers of Epidermis.
What is:
Come Lets Get Sun Burnt
or
Cute Little Girls Sing Beautifully
The 2 main types of pigments found in the skin.
(using the actual name, not the color)
What is
Melanin (brown) and
Carotene (orange)
At least 2 ways someone may identify potential melanoma.
What is:
A - asymmetrical
B - uneven border
C - color
D - diameter
E - evolution
2 effects of inflammation
What is swellings, heat, redness, pain?
When a majority of a population is vaccinated which in turn protects those who cannot get vaccinated.
What is herd immunity?
The 3 main layers of skin starting from the most superficial layer to the deepest layer,
What is:
Epidermis
Dermis
Hypodermis
The difference between eccrine and apocrine glands.
What is Eccrine glands release secretions through pores while apocrine glands release secretions through the hair follicle?
At least 3 different ways the integumentary system gets affected with age.
What is decrease of:
oil production
collagen fibers
elastic fibers
Melanin in hair (air bubbles/grey hair)
Adipose
1 effect of a Fever.
What is to slow down pathogen activity or speed up the production of white blood cells?
The types of cells that allow your immune system to better fight off an infection once exposed to it again.
What are memory cells?