This is found all over the skin except on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. Their ducts usually empty into a hair follicle, but some open directly onto the skin surface.
What are sebaceous glands, or oil glands?
100
The two layer classifications of tissues.
What are simple and stratified?
100
This fluid lies in the cavity between joints.
What is synovial fluid?
100
If first degree burns injure primarily the epidermis and third degree burns burn the entire thickness of the skin, second degree burns must damage these regions.
What are the epidermis and dermis?
200
The uppermost layer of the skin is full of this, and is cornified, or hardened, in order to help prevent water loss from the body surface.
What is keratin?
200
The product of sebaceous glands
What is sebum?
200
The three height classifications of tissues.
What are squamous, cuboidal, and columnar?
200
This membrane surrounds all other membranes.
What is the cutaneous membrane?
200
This test is used to determine if moles or pigmented spots are related to melanoma.
What is the ABCD test?
300
The subdivisions of the dermis. They are host to the cutaneous glands and the hair.
What are the papillary layer and the reticular layer?
300
Sweat glands and sebaceous glands belong to this category of glands found along the skin.
What are exocrine glands?
300
The three types of muscle tissue.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle tissue?
300
Unlike it's peri- prefix relatives, this membrane that lies beneath the skin begins with the letter m- and is also open to the exterior unlike the serous.
What is the mucous membrane?
300
This method determines how much of the surface of the body is burned by dividing the body into eleven areas which split the body into 9% per area.
What is the rule of nines?
400
A pigment in the skin that ranges in color from yellow to brown to black. Also it is produced by melanocytes.
What is melanin?
400
There are more than 2.5 million per person and there are two variations called the eccrine and apocrine
What are sweat glands?
400
If it is not dense connective tissue, bone, blood, or cartilage then it must be this form of connective tissue.
What is loose connective tissue?
400
These three layers of a hair shaft in order from deep to superficial.
What are the medulla, cortex, and cuticle?
400
Poison ivy falls under this category of allergic skin reactions.
What is contact dermatitis?
500
The four layers of outermost stratified layers of skin in order from deep to superficial.
What are the stratum spinosum, the stratum granulosum, the stratum lucidum, and the stratum corneum?
500
This layer of skin consists of adipose and nervous tissues. It is the bottom-most layer of skin
What is the hypodermis?
500
Name this type of connective tissue that is not areolar tissue or reticular connective tissue.
What is adipose tissue?
500
This is the growth zone for hair located in the hair bulb.
What is the matrix?
500
Overexposure to ultraviolet radiation in sunlight causes skin cancer due to the malignant nature of this, which is also known as a tumor.