Melanin
These cells create melanin.
What are melanocytes.
What is Sebum?
Tattoo ink must be injected below this layer.
What is the basement membrane?
Where mitosis is happening in hair and nails.
What is the matrix?
Caused by the herpes virus and causes a sore that is often found on the lips and is triggered by stress.
What is a cold sore.
Is easily broken down by UV light.
What is folate?
What is Eccrine?
Where Adipose tissue is found.
What is the hypodermis?
The nail plate is below it.
What is the nail bed?
A mutation often caused by exposure to UV light causes this cancer and leads to irregular looking moles.
What is Melanoma?
Requires UV light to be produced.
What is Vitamin D?
Attached to hair follicles and secretes sweat that is mixed with fatty acids and proteins but only after a person has reached puberty.
What is Apocrine?
Where nerves, collagen, and elastin are found.
What is the Dermis?
A muscle responsible for goosebumps that is attached to each hair follicle.
What is the arrector pili muscle?
This protein has a mutation in it and causes the epidermis and dermis to rub against each other and blisters to form.
What is Collagen VII (7)?
A person with high levels of this who lives in a place with little UV should take Vitamin D supplements.
Two types of glands that are attached to hair and are activated after puberty.
What is Apocrine and Sebaceous?
Where mitosis is happening in the stratified squamous epithelial tissue.
What is the Stratum Basal?
What is the hyponychium?
A disease caused by a fungus that grows well in warm, wet places and is easily spread through contact.
What is Athlete's Foot?
What is folate?
When the body too cold.
What is hypothermia?
What is the Stratum Corneum?
Skin that seals the nail plate and covers the lunula.
What is the cuticle?
Caused by bacteria entering a break in the skin and causing painful swelling and red streaks around the wound.
What is Cellulitis?