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Injection that goes into to top layer of skin and tissue. Usually around a 10 degree angle.
What is an intradermal injection?
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The usual cause of cutaneous carcinomas.
What is exposure to UV light?
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The components that the nerve fibers scattered throughout the dermis are associated with.
What are the muscles, sensory receptors, and glands?
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The reason the skin darkens when exposed to UV light.
What is the stimulating the production of melanin?
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The result to skin cells as they are pushed from the deeper part of the epidermis toward the surface.
What is that they die?
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The location of a subcutaneous injection.
What is the hypodermis or fat layer?
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Burns that include all layers of skin that normally need grafting.
What is a third (full-thickness) burn?
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These 3 physiological factors can cause a change in the color of the skin.
What are disease, carotene and blood volume?
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The parts of the integumentary system.
What are the skin, nails, hair follicles and glands?
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Protects the outermost layer of skin.
What is keratin?
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The component of hair.
What is dead epidermal cells?
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This layer of skin is made of stratified squamous epithemium.
What is the epidermis?
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The meaning of each part of the ABCDE rule.
What is asymmetry, border, color, diameter, evolution?
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Disorder involving the sebaceous glands.
What is acne?
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Sebum is secreted from these glands.
What is sebaceous glands?
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The 4 things the skin does.
What is protects from water loss, excretes wastes, regulates body temperature, and synthesizes vitamin D?
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The areas you mainly find eccrine glands and why they respond.
What are the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet and they respond due to an increase in body temperature?
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The vitamin produced by the skin.
What is vitamin D?
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Description and reason the Rule of 9's is used for burn victims.
What is dividing the body into regions divisible by 9 in order to assess fluid loss and replacement.
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The description for first, second and third degree burns.
What is first degree=red, heals in a few days; second=destroys epidermis and part of dermis, blisters; third degree?
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The parts of the nail.
What are the nail bed and nail plate?
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The reason the body needs to regulate body temperature.
What is to keep the body in homeostasis by keeping normal metabolic reaction rates?
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Skin cancer cells susually develop from this area.
What is non-pigmented epithelial cells?
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Explanation of asymmetry, border, color, diameter, and evolution in the ABCDE rule for skin cancer.
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Three steps you can take to prevent pressure ulcers (bed sores).
What is massage the skin, increase protein consumption, drink fluids, stimulate blood flow to area?
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Caused by a lack of oxygen, it produces a blue tint to the skin.
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The layer where the blood vessels that supply skin cells is located.
What is the subcutaneous layer (hypodermis)?
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Three of the body's response to a loss of heat.
What is the dermal blood vessels constrict, sweat grands become inactive, skeletal muscles contract involuntarily (shivering), less blood flows to dermal vessels?
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The thickest layer of the skin.
What is the dermis?
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Smooth muscles and nerves are located in this part of the skin.
What is the dermis?