Functions
Skin
Spa Day
Glands
Disease
100
This function has physical, chemical and biological barriers.
What is protection?
100
These 3 layers make up the skin.
What are the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis layers?
100
Another word for hair.
What is pili?
100
The common name for a sudoriferous gland.
What is sweat gland?
100
The C in the ABCD rule for melanoma stands for this.
What is color?
200
Sweating is a sign of this function.
What is body temperature regulation.
200
This substance produced in epidermis helps give skin its color. Comes from word meaning black.
What is melanin?
200
The 2 regions of a hair.
What is the shaft and the root?
200
The 2 types of sweat glands on the body.
What are eccrine and apocrine sweat glands?
200
For burns, this method is used to determine the percentage of body surface has been burned.
What is the Rule of Nines?
300
This vitamin is produced as part of the metabolic function.
What is vitamin D?
300
The thin layer of the dermis make peglike projections into the epidermis.
What is the papillary layer?
300
Most individual hairs have how many layers.
What are 3?
300
This specialized gland makes "sweat" that is good for newborns.
What is the mammary gland?
300
This disease is characterized by the decay of body tissue.
What is gangrene?
400
5% of the body's supply of this is stored as a reservoir in the skin.
What is blood?
400
Substance made in the epidermis that helps give the outer layer of skin its protective properties.
What is keratin?
400
Concerning both hair and nails, each share this common word as a name for parts of their structure.
What is cuticle?
400
The common term for sebaceous gland.
What is an oil gland?
400
After surgical removal of a melanoma, these are 3 other forms of treatment that may be performed.
What is chemotherapy, immunotherapy or radiation therapy.
500
Merkel cells in the epidermis help in performing this function in the skin.
What is sensory reception?
500
In the hypodermis, another name for "fat" tissue.
What is adipose tissue?
500
The hair shaft and the fingernail are both hard versions of this type of cell found in the epidermis.
What is keratin.
500
Common name for the substance cerumen. Think Q-tip!
What is earwax?
500
The less common name for bedsores.
What are decubitus ulcers?
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