Skin Layers
The thickest layer of the skin.
What is the Dermis?
This phase of wound healing is associated with bleeding and mast cells moving to the area to trigger a response.
What is the inflammatory phase?
This attachment to the hair follicle causes your hair to stand up when you experience a fight or flight reaction.
What is the arrector pilli muscle?
The amount of this pigment determines someone's skin color.
What is melanin?
These are absorbed from the body during the hair growth process.
What are nutrients?
The layer of skin below the dermis.
What is the Hypodermis?
This is another name for a first-degree burn and affects the epidermis only.
What is a partial-thickness burn?
The purpose of sebum (oil) produced by the sebaceous glands.
What is to prevent bacterial growth, lubricate, and condition the skin?
The type of cells that produce melanin.
What are melanocytes?
The purpose of hairs in the nose and ears.
What is preventing the entry of particles and insects into your nose and ears?
The top layer of skin that you can touch.
What is the epidermis?
The mnemonic used to remember key characteristics of skin cancer.
What is ABCD?
This type of accessory structure excretes water and electrolytes to the surface of the skin.
What are the merocrine sweat glands?
More melanin in the skin limits the amount of this from passing through the epidermis.
What is UV radiation?
The production of this vitamin declines by 75 percent in old age and can lead to a decrease in bone and muscle strength/density.
What is vitamin D?
The layer of skin that blood vessels in the body branch through.
What is the Dermis?
This phase of wound repair occurs about one week after the injury and is when the scab is fully supported by a lining of new skin cells and the wound has started to show scar tissue.
What is the Proliferation phase?
The tissue that surrounds and innervates the base of the hair follicle.
Nerve tissue
There are approximately how many genes affecting skin pigmentation?
What is approximately 100 genes?
The reason that older people might have recurring skin infections.
What is the skin repair process takes twice as long?
The layer of skin that contains fat.
What is the Hypodermis?
The approximate time it takes for the body to heal a wound (cut/puncture).
What is approximately 3-4 weeks?
The sweat glands located in armpits and pubic area that secrete sweat through the hair follicles.
What are the apocrine sweat glands?
The three big factors that determine the type and amount of melanin in the skin.
What are genes, environment, and age.
The name for the fleshy part of your nail underneath the nail plate.
What is the nail bed?