The organ that is responsible for regulating body temperature, forming a protective covering for underlying structures and housing sensory structures that communicate information about the environment
What is the skin?
100
The four accessory organs of the skin
What are the nails, hair, sweat glands and sebaceous glands?
100
Condition where the body's core temperature drops below 95F
What is hypothermia?
100
Normal response of the body to injury or stress; area typically appears red and swollen
What is inflammation?
100
The largest organ in the human body
What is the skin?
200
These parts of the body have an extra layer in the epidermis, called the stratum lucidum
What is the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet?
200
The glands usually associated with hair follicles
What is the sebaceous glands?
200
In order to conserve heat, your brain will signal the skin blood vessels to do this
What is constrict (or get smaller)?
200
Cells that migrate into an injured area and secrete collagenous fibers to bind the wound together
What are fibroblasts?
200
Part of the skin where sensory and motor nerve fibers are located
What is the dermis?
300
The layer in the epidermis where cells divide and reproduce
What is stratum basale (the deepest layer of the epidermis)?
300
The female mammary glands, ceruminous glands, eccrine glands and apocrine glands are all examples of this
What are sweat glands?
300
In order to get rid of excess heat, your brain will signal the blood vessels in your skin to do this
What is dilate (or get bigger)?
300
Cells that clean up dead cells, bacteria and cellular debris
What are phagocytes (or phagocytic cells)?
300
Vitamin that is produced by the skin and is essential to bone growth and development
What is vitamin D?
400
The pigment that helps protect the deepest layers of the epidermis and the dermis from the damaging effects of UV radiation
What is melanin?
400
The growing portion of the nail
What is the lunula?
400
Part of the brain that detects changes in body temperature
What is the hypothalamus?
400
Small rounded masses that may form in the exposed tissues of large, open wounds
What are granulations?
400
Process through which the cytoplasm of cells fills with a tough, fibrous, waterproof protein
What is keratinization?
500
The layer of the skin that is responsible for preventing water loss and protecting against mechanical injury and the effects of harmful chemicals
What is the epidermis?
500
The group of epidermal cells at the base of a tube-like depression that a hair develops from
What is the hair follicle?
500
Part of the body that contracts in order to produce heat; also called "shivering"
What are the skeletal muscles?
500
A burn that destroys the epidermis, dermis and accessory organs of the skin
What is a third degree (or full-thickness) burn?
500
Specialized cells that produce the pigment that protects skin against the damaging effects of UV radiation