Introduction
This layer of skin has no blood vessels
What is the epidermis?
Mitosis occurs primarily in this stratum of the epidermis.
What is the stratum basale?
The dermis is composed of this type of tissue.
What is connective tissue?
Sudoriferous glands are also known as _______ glands.
What are sweat glands?
Hair and nails are modifications of the ______.
What is the epidermis?
This layer is not a part of your skin
What is hypodermis?
This protein found throughout the epidermis gives the epidermis its protective properties.
What is keratin?
Blood vessels, collagen, elastin, and keratin, one of these is NOT associated with the dermis.
What is keratin?
Sweat is mostly composed of this.
What is water?
The protein found in our hair and nails is _________.
What is keratin?
These cells in the epidermis are key activators of the immune system.
What are dendritic cells?
This layer of the dermis is composed of dense irregular connective tissue.
What is the reticular layer?
These sweat glands are important for body temperature regulation.
What are eccrine glands?
The smooth muscle associated with a hair follicle is called __________.
What is arrector pilli?
Hemoglobin, carotene, keratin, and melanin, one of these does NOT contribute to skin color
What is keratin
Dogs track humans by the scent of epithelial cells that are constantly being shed. These cells are shed from which stratum?
What is the stratum corneum?
This layer of the dermis is closest to the epidermis.
What is the papillary layer?
Endocrine, ceruminous, sebaceous, or sudoriferous, one of these glands, found in the skin, is also a holocrine gland.
What is sebaceous?
One of these is not associated with the hair, cuticle, matrix, medulla, lunule.
What is lunule?
This layer of the skin (subsection) is responsible for our fingerprints.
What is the papillary dermis?
You would expect to find the healthiest cells in this layer of the epidermis.
What is the stratum basale.
Dermal ______ are peglike folds of the superficial layer of the dermis.
What are papillae?
Sebaceous, ceruminous, and mammary are accessory glands of the ______.
What is the skin?
One of these is not associated with nails, eponychium, keratin, matrix, medulla.
What is medulla?