Q/A
What is the largest Organ in the body?
The Skin.
What is the Epidermis made of?
Keratinized Stratified Squamous Epithelium.
What are the two layers that make up the Dermis?
Papillary and Reticular.
Which sweat gland is the most numerous and last throughout the who life.
Eccrine Glands.
What is the worst type of burn?
What are the main functions of the Skin?
Protection, Regulates body Heat, Produces Vitamin D from UV, Contains Sensory Receptors.
How many layers of Epidermis is there?
What cells are Nails made of?
Keratinized cells.
Where can Apocrine glands be found?
Armpits, and groan.
What does granulayion tissue form a wound is being filled with scar tissue?
A Matrix.
What are the main 2 layers of the Skin?
Epidermis and the Dermis.
How do Calluses form?
True or False? All Humans have a different number a Melanocytes.
False
What usually happens to wounds as a result of inflammation.
They become red and swollen.
What is the most common type of skin cancer?
Cutaneous Carcinomus.
What is the third layer of the skin that isn't really a distinct layer?
Subcutaneous.
What does Melanin do?
Provides Skin Color.
What causes hair to stand straight up and may cause goosebumps?
Arrector Pilli muscle.
What happens if there is a injury in the Dermis or subcutaneous layers of the skin.
The blood clots and eventually forms a scab.
What is Cutaneous Melanomas caused by?
Short intense exposure to sunlight.
What is the deepest layer of Skin?
Subcutaneous.
What produces Melanin?
Melanocytes.
What do Sedaceous glands secrete?
Sebum
What cells remove dead cells and debris.
Phagocytic cells.
What is the ABCDE rule?
A-asymmetry
B-border
C-color
D-diameter
E-elevation