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A physician who specializes in diseases and disorders of the skin, hair, and nails.
What is a dermatologist?
The function of subcutaneous tissue.
What is gives the body smoothness and contour?
The role of the barrier function.
prevents evaporation of water and keeps skin moist TEWL
The medical branch of science that deals with the study of the skin and its nature, structure, functions, diseases and treatment.
What is Dermatology?
The outermost and thinnest layer of the skin, and consists of five layers.
What is the epidermis?
Protects the skin cells by absorbing and blocking ultraviolet radiation.
What is the function of melanin?
What is the amount of melanin activated in the skin and the way it is distributed?
send messages to the central nervous system and brain to react to heat, cold, touch, pressure and pain?Sensory nerve fibers
Sensory nerve fibers
Melanin that is dark brown to black in color.
What is eumelanin?
Motor nerve fibers
What is exclusively transmit impulses from the brain or spinal cord to the muscles or glands?
Controls the flow of sebum to the surface of the skin?Secretory nerve fibers
Secretory nerve fibers
The fatty or oily secretion that lubricates the skin and preserves the softness of the hair.
What is Sebum?
Skin color whether fair, medium, or dark is dependent primarily upon it.
What is melanin?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
Gives the skin flexibility and elasticity.
What is elastin?
The body's way of heat regulation.
What is the evaporation of sweat?
The fibrous protein that is also the principal component of the hair, skin and nails.
What is keratin?
Melanin that is red to yellow in color.
What is pheomelanin?
A protective barrier made up of sebum, lipids, sweat, and water that forms a film to protect the skin
What is the acid mantle/skin Barrier?
Glands that are connected to the hair follicles and secrete sebum.
What is sebaceous glands?
Fibrous connective tissue that gives the skin form and strength.
What is collagen?
The deeper layer of the dermis that supplies the skin with oxygen and nutrients.
What is the recticular layer?
Small muscles attached to hair follicles.
What is Arrector pili muscles?
Excrete perspiration and detoxify the body by excreting excess salt and unwanted chemicals.
Sudoriferous (Sweat) glands?
Small, cone-shaped elevations at the Epidermal Junction
papillae
Vitamin that improves elasticity and thickness
Vitamin A
Vitamin that accelerates healing process
Vitamin C
Vitamin that enables absorption of calcium
Vitamin D
Vitamin thaty protects against sun’s rays
Vitamin E
The 6 Functions of the skin
Protection, Sensation, Heat Regulation, Excretion, Secretion, and Absorpsion