Skin Sense
What type of skin receptor allows us to perceive deep pressure and skin distortion?
Ruffini's endings (also called corpuscles)
This layer is composed of dead cells with keratin inside?
Stratum Corneum
These type of cells help produce new bone cells?
osteoblasts
What is the typical template for bone growth?
Cartilage
What type of hormone helps promote bone density?
Growth hormone
This type of mechanoreceptor surrounds hair in the dermis layer
root hair plexus
This layer is the deepest skin layer
Hypodermis
How many bones do adults?
206
Which two major parts of the skeleton are not ossified to allow babies to be born?
Skull and Shoulders
What is the disease that causes more bone to deteriorate than is made?
Osteoporosis
This sensory apparatus is responsible for sensing pain and temperature stimuli
Free nerve endings
This layer is deep to the stratum corneum and superficial to stratum granulosum?
Stratum lucidum
A spinal vertebrae is what type of bone
An irregular bone
What is the structures that allows bones to grow in length?
Epiphyseal plate
This disease characterized by brittle bones was partially eliminated by research done by the biochem department at UW Madison
Rickets
This layer is where Meissner's corpuscles are found?
Papillary dermis
This layer contains the Langerhans cells?
Stratum Spinosum
This bone part has all of the blood vessels and nerves
Periosteum
What is the name of it when bones grow in diameter?
Appositional bone growth
Thyroxine
Which mechanoreceptor would be most sensitive to a loss of myelination?
Pacinians corpuscles
If someone has a third degree burn that burns down to the subcutaneous fat (adipose tissue) what mechanoreceptors are affected?
all of them
This structure allows for the transportation of nutrients and wastes from the osteocytes?
Canaliculi
This is formed from the secretion of osteoid around capillaries in intramembranous ossification
Trabecular matrix
Around what age do we have peak bone mass
≈25-30