Skin 1
Vitamin synthesized by the skin.
What is vitamin D?
The pigment responsible for hair and skin color.
What is melanin?
A type of burn characterized by blistering and red skin.
What is a second-degree burn?
This is the meaning of the letter "D" in the ABCDE diagnosis of melanoma.
What is diameter?
The "tanning" effect when out in the sun is due to this pigment.
What is melanin?
This is a lubricant that keeps skin soft and moist and also contains chemicals that kill bacteria.
What is sebum?
Membrane surrounding the lung that is serous.
What is pleura?
The location of hair growth.
What is the hair matrix?
These are the two main layers of the skin.
What is the epidermis and dermis?
Skin tone of people who produce a high amount of melanin.
What is brown?
Type of gland responsible for secreting substances directly onto the skin.
What is exocrine?
Layer of the epidermis that forms the nail bed.
What is the stratum basale?
A skin cancer that accounts for 80% of all skin cancer cases and affects the cells of stratum basale.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
This is the process by which nutrients reach the surface of the skin.
What is diffusion?
Male pattern baldness is triggered by this.
What is age?
These provide toughness in the dermis and help with water retention.
What are collagen fibers?
The Staphylococcus infection of the skin that causes pink, water-filled, raised lesions.
What is impetigo?
80 year old men losing hair on their scalp is a result of this phenomenon.
What is male pattern baldness?
The layer that is affected when a scrape occurs at the most superficial epidermal layer.
What is stratum corneum?
Fingerprints are by dermal papillae in this skin layer.
Cutaneous gland that produces sweat to cool the body by evaporative cooling.
What is an eccrine gland?
This triggers sweat and eccrine glad production.
What are body temperature and hormones?
Layer of the epidermis composed of flattened, dead, keratin-filled cells.
What is the stratum corneum?
These function in warming the body by contracting and "standing" straight up
What are arrector pili muscles?
This substance kills bacteria and prevents bacterial infections.
What is sebum?