Skin Color Variations
Bruises
Blood clotting in masses called HEMATOMAS
-Black & Blue-
What are touch receptors?
Meissner's corpuscles
The epidermis is composed of what tissue?
Stratified sqaumous epitheliem.
What is the term for inflamed hair follicles?
Boils.
C is describing COLOR
Pallor/Blanching
Pale skin
-White-
What are pressure receptors called?
Pacinian Corpuscles
What is the straum corneum?
The outermost layer of the epidermis.
What is the term for the skin's response when exposed to allergy inducing chemicals?
Contact dermatitis.
What is the difference between Benign and Malignant?
Benign doesn't spread and Malignant metastasized (spreads).
-Blue-
Cyanosis
In what layer are Meissner's corpuscles?
Papillary
What tissue is the dermis composed of?
Dense fibrous tissue.
Which bacterial infection is primarily found in children?
Impetigo (staph).
Metastasizes to lymph nodes if not removed, believed to be sun-induced, lastly arises from stratum spinosum.
Squamous cell carcinoma
On skin from liver disorder
-Yellowing-
Jaundice
In what layer is the Pacinian Corpuscles?
Reticular
What is the function of the Pacinian Corpuscles?
They are pressure receptors.
What is another way to refer to bed sores? (Caused by restricted blood supply)
Decubitus ulcer.
Cancer of melonocytes, metastisizes rapidly to lymph and blood vessels.
Malignant Melanoma. The most deadly skin cancer.
Erythema
Blushing, fever, allergy & inflammation
-Redness-
What is a sensory organ?
A. protect your skin
B. perceive & respond to things around you
C. Regulates Temperature
D. Waterproofs the skin
B.
What tissue is the hypodermis composed of?
Adipose tissue.
____ is a herpes simplex virus found in the cutaneous nerve, that remains dormant.
Cold sores or fever blisters.
What are all the letters in the ABCDE rule.
A=asymmetry, B=border irregularity, C=color, D=Diameter, E=evolving.