Skin
Hair
Sweat Glands
Organs of Skin
Disorders
100
Protection, coverage, and temperature regulation
What are functions of the skin?
100
70-100 per day
How many hairs do you lose a day?
100
Contains mostly water, small amounts of salt, and waste
What is sweat made of?
100
Part of the hair implanted in the skin
What is the root?
100
Fungal infections
What is athlete's foot and ringworm?
200
Most superficial layer
What is the epidermis?
200
The visible part of the hair
What is the hair shaft?
200
The mammary gland
What sweat gland does the female have?
200
This organ is distributed over most of the surface of the body
What is the hair?
200
Painful bacterial infection of the hair follicle
What is a boil?
300
Tough, leathery, fibrous connective tissue, only partly vascularized
What is the dermis?
300
The base of the hair root
What is the hair bulb
300
Eccrine gland
What is the most abundant sweat gland?
300
Consists of dead epidermal cells
What are nails?
300
Viral infection that is usually seen as a blister
What is herpes?
400
Black pigment responsible for hair, eye, and skin color
What is melanin?
400
Stage where hair is formed by epithelial cells in the hair bulb
What is the growth stage?
400
Puberty
When does the apocrine gland become active?
400
Secrets oil
What is the function of the subaceous gland?
400
Most common type of cancer
What is basal cell cancer?
500
Effects of aging
What is decreased collagen and elastin?
500
True or False: We are born with all of our hair follicles
What is true?
500
Excretory
What character of life does sweat fall under?
500
The two major tissue layers of the skin
What is the dermis and epidermis?
500
Most common cause of skin cancer
What is uv light?
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