Contains adipose tissue for insulation and protection
What is the hypodermis?
This fingerprint class has one or more ridges that enter and leave on the same side.
What is a loop?
This fungal disease usually causes redness, flakiness, peeling, or cracking of the skin.
What is Athlete's Foot?
Found all over skin, except on palms of hands and soles of feet
What are sebaceous glands?
These tiny arachnids feast on sebum, the greasy oil in your pores
What are demodex mites?
This layer of skin is mostly composed of dead, keratinized cells
What is the epidermis?
This fingerprint class has at least one ridge that makes (or tends to make) a complete circuit.
What is a whorl?
Small blisters on lips, itching, dryness, and irritation of the mouth due to a virus.
What is a cold sore?
The two types of Sudoriferous Glands.
What are Eccrine and Apocrine glands?
Tattoo ink must be injected to this layer of skin.
What is the basement membrane?
This layer contains connective tissue like collagen and elastin.
What is the dermis?
Multiple layers of flat cells that lines our esophagus.
What is stratified squamous tissue?
Autoimmune disease that causes a butterfly rash on the face.
What is Lupus
This integrator signals blood vessels to dilate when overheated.
What is the hypothalamus?
These cells contain long, pigment containing cellular extensions that pass upward between epidermal cells
What are melanocytes?
This layer of the epidermis contains cells that continuously divide and push up towards the surface of the skin.
What is the stratum basale?
Also known as "immigration delay disease"
What is Adermatoglyphia?
This bacterial infection occurs when bacteria enters a break in the skin.
What is Cellulitis?
Attaches the bulb to the basement membrane
What is the Arrector Pili Muscle?
Populations that live closer to the equator tend to have more.
What is Eumelanin?
Hair bulbs are made of this layer of skin.
What is the stratum basale?
What is simple columnar cells?
This genetic disease causes blisters and fragile skin leading to open wounds.
What is Epidermolysis Bullosa?
The two types of hair.
What are vellus and terminal?
This can appear as a new spot or a change in an existing mole or freckle. It can have an uneven color, with shades of black, brown, tan, white, gray, red, pink, or blue.
What is Melanoma?