Anatomy
What is the outer most layer of the skin?
What is the Epidermis.
What does blood supply to the skin?
What is Nutrients and Oxygen.
What part of the body does not have Sebaceous Glands?
What is the palms and soles.
What is an ingrown toenail called?
What is Onychocryptosis.
What is the condition in which blood clots form under the nail plate?
What is a Bruised Nail Bed.
What is the deepest layer of the epidermis?
What is the Basal Cell layer or Stratum Germinativum.
What is the clear fluid of the body that resembles blood plasma but only contains water and other colorless substances?
What is a Lymph.
What is Body Temperature.
What refers to split or brittle nails that have a series of lengthwise ridges?
What is Onychorrhexis.
What disease causes noticeably thin, white nail plates that are much more flexible than normal which is caused by improper diet, hereditary factors, internal disease, or medication.
What is Eggshell Nails.
What is the thick skin on the palms of hands and soles of feet?
What is the Stratum Lucidum.
What reacts to heat, cold, touch, pressure, and pain?
What is the Sensory Nerve Fibers.
What controls the excretion of sweat?
What is the Nervous System.
What is a fungal infection of the natural nail plate?
What are the visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate?
What are Beau's Line.
What is the fatty layer found below the dermis called?
What is the Subcutaneous Tissue.
What distributes the arrector pili muscles that are attached to the hair follicles and can cause goose bumps?
What is the Motor Nerve Fibers.
What gland of the skin is connected to the hair follicles?
What is the Sebaceous Glands.
What is the separation of the nail plate and bed, often due to physical injury or allergic reactions?
What is Onycholysis.
What is it called when there is excessive sweating with an unknown cause?
What is Hyperhidrosis.
What is the Stratum Spinosum.
What is a part of the autonomic nervous system that distributes sweat and oil glands?
What is the Secretory Nerve Fibers.
What contains two types of duct glands that extract materials from the blood to form new substances?
What is the Sudoriferous Glands, Sweat Glands, or Sebaceous Glands.
What is the result of biting nails and the skin around the nail plate?
What is Onychophangy.
What is the skin disease characterized by red patches covered with silver-white scales usually found on the scalp, elbows, knees, chest, and lower back?
What is Psoriasis.