Skin 1
Vitamin synthesized by the skin.
What is vitamin D?
The pigment responsible for hair and skin color.
What is melanin?
The "tanning" effect when out in the sun is due to this pigment.
What is melanin?
Skin tone of people who produce a high amount of melanin.
What is brown?
Male pattern baldness is triggered by this.
What is age?
This is the meaning of the letter "D" in the ABCDE diagnosis of melanoma.
What is diameter?
This results in dry, dead skin on the scalp.
What is dandruff?
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?
The part of the hair the is visible protruding from the top of the scalp.
What is the hair shaft?
A type of burn characterized by blistering and red skin.
What is a second-degree burn?
This cell produces keratin.
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?
80 year old men losing hair on their scalp is a result of this phenomenon.
What is male pattern baldness?
This substance kills bacteria and prevents bacterial infections.
What is sebum?
This is the process by which nutrients reach the surface of the skin.
What is diffusion?
The Staphylococcus infection of the skin that causes pink, water-filled, raised lesions.
What is impetigo?
What is dermatitis?
The layer that is affected when a scrape occurs at the most superficial epidermal layer.
What is stratum corneum?
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?
A skin cancer that accounts for 80% of all skin cancer cases and affects the cells of stratum basale.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
Fingerprints are by dermal papillae in this skin layer.
These provide toughness in the dermis and help with water retention.
What are collagen fibers?
This is the cell responsible for alerting and activating an immune response to a bacterial or viral invasion
What is epidermal dendritic cell?
The most superficial layer of the epidermis, along with the deepest layer of the epidermis.
What is stratum corneum and stratum basale?
These are the meanings for the acronym ABCDE in the diagnosis of melanoma.
What is asymmetrical, border, color, diameter, and evolving?
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 is the layer of epidermis that is only present in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
What is stratum lucidum?
This is the name for the hypodermal tissue in which the hair root exists.
What is subcutaneous?