Functions
These primarily function to regulate body temperature through evaporative cooling. They also help maintain skin hydration and excreting waste products (such as salt).
What are Sudoriferous glands or sweat glands?
Top layer of the skin
What is the epidermis?
What is jaundice?
Rare genetic condition that causes a lack of pigment in the hair, skin, and eyes.
What is albinism?
Another term for an oil-secreting gland.
What is sebaceous?
This substance helps keep our skin and hair hydrated, and also helps protect the skin from bacteria and other harmful substances.
What is sebum?
The middle layer of skin.
Bluish discoloration of the skin, due to lack of oxygen.
What is cyanosis?
Skin may become red, irritated, swollen, and itchy when exposed to an allergen, such as jewelry, lotion, laundry detergent, etc.
What is contact dermatitis?
This is the visible part of the hair that extends above the skin's surface.
What is the hair shaft?
Located in the hypodermis, it provides cushion, helps keep us insulated, and also is a reservoir for energy.
What is adipose tissue or fat?
What is the hypodermis?
Another name for the sweat gland.
What is the sudoriferous gland?
Another term for cancerous. The opposite of benign.
What is malignant?
What does the "A" stand for in ABCDE'S of melanoma?
What is asymmetry?
Located in the epidermis and dermis, they detect pain, pressure, touch and temperature.
What are nerves?
The skin layer where the hair follicle, sweat gland, sebaceous gland are all located
What is the Dermis?
Pale or white discoloration of the skin. Not the same as the condition of albinism.
What is pallor?
This is an autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks and destroys the body's melanin-producing cells, resulting in white patches on the skin.
What is vitiligo?
What does the "E" stand for in ABCDE's of melanoma?
What is elevation or evolution?
This skin layer has many functions, including exfoliation. It continuously sheds old and dead skin cells, which helps to maintain a smooth and healthy skin surface.
What is the epidermis?
Another name for the hypodermis. Starts with an "s".
What is Subcutaneous?
What are melanocytes?
Highly contagious bacterial infection that causes itching, pus-filled blisters that often lead to crusts, especially around the mouth. Most common in school-aged children.
What is impetigo?
This layer of the epidermis produces the basement membrane, which functions as the site of attachment of the epidermis to the dermis.
What is the stratum basale or basement layer?