We Love Layers
The top layer of the skin
Epidermis
This is black, purple, or blue discoloration caused by leaking blood from capillaries.
Hint: AKA ecchymosis or contusion
bruise
These are rigid connective tissues that make up the skeleton.
Bones
Joint inflammation
A condition in which the bones have reduced density, but not enough to be osteoporosis
Osteopenia
This layer contains glands and nerves.
Dermis
Break this word down using your vocabulary.
Dermatitis
skin inflammation
What do the bones NOT do?
1. make up the skeleton
2. support body structure
3. enhance breathing through the ribs
4. protect the organs
enhance breathing through the ribs
This inherited, progressive disease causes a gradual wasting away of muscle resulting in weakness and deforimity.
Muscular dystrophy
pain in a limb that has been amputated
phantom limb pain
Layer of the skin containing fat cells and hair follicles.
Subcutaneous Tissue
A viral infection caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox
Shingles
A protective substance that covers the ends of bones and makes up the disks that are found between vertebrae.
cartilage
Describe tendonitis.
Use your vocabulary.
tendon inflammation
tendons connect muscle to bone
What vitamin does someone need to absorb Calcium?
Vit D
Melanin
What is the cause of scabies?
Mites that burrow in the skin
These bands of connective tissues connect cartilage and bone to cartilage and bone.
Ligaments
This means the muscle is wasting away.
atrophy
a- without
-trophy nourishment
This is a skin lesion that is raised and do not contain pus.
papule
Word for natural protective covering.
Integument
What is a second degree burn?
Burn involving the epidermis and dermis characterized by blisters
The point where any two bones meet?
Joints
Using your vocabulary, what is osteomyelitis?
bone muscle inflammation
osteo - bone
myel or myo - muscle
itis - inflammation
Ringworm is caused by what type of living organism.
Hint-it is not a worm
fungus