Integumentary System I
This type of tissue in the hypodermis stores energy and insulates the body.
What is adipose?
This outermost layer of the skin acts as a barrier to pathogens and helps prevent water loss.
What is the epidermis?
This thick layer beneath the epidermis contains blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue.
What is the dermis?
A type of skin that lacks a stratum lucidum, contains hair, is found on the back
What is thin skin?
A layer of skin that contains nerve endings, lymphatic vessels, and hair follicles
What is the dermis?
This gland secretes oily sebum to lubricate skin and hair.
What is the sebaceous gland?
This deepest layer of the epidermis contains stem cells that divide to form new keratinocytes.
What is the stratum basale?
This visible part of hair extends above the skin surface.
What is the hair shaft?
This layer of skin replaces older cells that desquamate with newer cells by mitosis.
What is stratum basale?
This provides protection from abrasion, dehydration, ultraviolet light, and entry of microorganisms
What is the skin?
This touch receptor in the dermal papillae detects light touch and texture.
What is Meissner’s corpuscle?
This layer of the epidermis provides strength and flexibility due to its desmosome connections.
What is the stratum spinosum?
This deeper layer of the dermis provides structural support and houses glands and hair follicles.
What is the reticular layer?
Stratified squamous epithelium
What tissue is the epidermis made of?
These sweat glands are responsible for cooling the body
merocrine (eccrine)
This deep pressure receptor is found in the reticular layer of the dermis.
What is Pacinian corpuscle?
This epidermal layer contains granules and helps in waterproofing the skin.
What is the stratum granulosum?
This upper layer of the dermis contains capillaries and sensory neurons.
What is the papillary layer?
The dermis is made of this kind of tissue.
What is connective tissue?
This gland prevents drying of the skin, protects against some bacteria, and are classified as holocrine
Sebaceous glands
This sweat gland helps regulate body temperature through watery secretion.
What is the eccrine sweat gland?
This layer consists of dead, flattened cells that are continuously shed and replaced.
What is the stratum corneum?
This small muscle attached to hair follicles causes goosebumps when it contracts.
What is the arrector pili muscle?
This layer contains blood vessels that nourish the epidermis, remove wastes and regulate body temperature
papillary layer
A condition caused by decreased oxygen in the blood.
What is cyanosis or blue tinted skin?