Layers
Other Structures
Tissue
Physiology and Functions
Potpourri
100
The second layer of the skin?
What is the dermis?
100

Made of dead cells and keratin

What are hair and nails

100

Voluntary, striated and helps with movement

What is skeletal muscle?

100

Something that is produced when exposed to UV light/

What is vitamin D or melanin?

100
Product of the sebaceous gland.
What is sebum?
200
Another name for the hypodermis
What is subcutaneous tissue?
200
A tiny muscle associated with each hair follicle.
What is the arrector pili?
200

Lines hollow organs and moves in wavelike contraction

What is smooth muscle?

200
The five functions of the Integumentary system/
What are protection, sensation, vitamin D production, temperature regulation, and excretion?
200

The tissue that anchors skin to underlying structures and insulates the body

What is adipose tissue?

300
The most superficial and the deepest layer of the epidermis respectively.
What are the stratum corneum and the stratum basale?
300
The two major glands of this system.
What are the sebaceous and sweat glands?
300

Blood, lymph, tendons ligaments, adipose and areolar.

What is connective tissue?

300

Mitosis takes place here

What is stratum basale?

300
The cells that produce the chemical responsible for skin pigmentation.
What are melanocytes?
400
The tissue that for the most part makes up the epidermis.
What is stratified squamous epithelium?
400

A structure that produces liquid to cool the body of and a structure that produces liquid that makes a smell when you start puberty.

What are the sudiferious and apocrine sweat glands

400

Brings information from the cell body to other areas of the body or cells.

What is the axon?

400

The layer of skin that protects from abrasions, outermost layer of epidermis

What is stratum corneum?

400
The disease where melanocytes do not do their job.
What is albinism?
500

The layer of the skin that contains blood vessels, nerves and connective tissues

What is dermis?

500

Reason 50% of the population doesn't have a visible lunula

What is because the cuticle grew over it?

500

All connective tissue have this feature.

What is cells scattered in a matrix?

500

The vitamin that is synthesized in the epidermis.

What is Vitamin D?

500

Another name for redness.

What is erythema?

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