Another name for the hypodermis
What is Subcutaneous Tissue?
This type of skin does not produce hair and has a thick stratum corneum.
What is thick skin?
The visible part of the nail
What is the nail body?
This surgery helps remove the scaring of a deep burn.
What is a skin graft?
The pigment that gives orange color in skin.
Carotene
The genetic trait that is the absence of functioning tyrosinase.
What is Albinism?
This is an extension of the epidermis into the dermis, where the hair grows from.
What is a hair follicle?
The part of the nail covered by the skin.
What is the nail root?
Causes burn damage to the epidermis and dermis
What is a second-degree burn?
All humans have roughly the same number of this pigment producing cell.
Melanocytes
This means that there is little danger that cancer will spread.
What is benign?
The gland that produce oils for hair health.
What is the Sebaceous Gland?
The small part of the nail that seems to have a small white crescent shape.
What is the lunula?
This burn will be painless
What is a third-degree burn? or 4th degree
An oily, white substance rich in lipids.
What is sebum?
The most frequent type of skin cancer.
What is a basal cell carcinoma?
The muscle that rises and lowers hair.
What is the arrector pili?
What nails are made of
What is Keratin?
this burn will be pain-full but will only involve the epidermis
What is a first-degree burn?
This layer of the epidermis contains the majority of the melanin pigment in our skin.
What the stratum granulosum?
A rare cancer that arises from melanocytes usually in a preexisting mole.
What is a malignant melanoma?
The sweat gland that releases organic substances on to the hair.
What is the Apocrine sweat gland
The corneum that extends onto the nail body.
What is the cuticle?
The total percent of body that is burned for a patient with burns to the frontal parts of their head and chest.
What is 22.5%?
The death of melanocytes and whitened patches on the skin is a name for this disease.
What is vitiligo?