Hair
Place where the most hair is found
What is the head?
The pigment which controls our skin tone
What is melanin?
This is the protein that nails are made of (think hair)
What is keratin?
These are glands that maintain body temperature.
What are sweat glands?
These are the glands from which acne occurs from.
What are sebaceous glands?
Where hair follicles are rooted
What is the skin?
Skin cells contain this genetic material that can repair repair enzymes
What is DNA?
What is act as a protective plate?
The two sweat glands:
What are Eccrine and Apocrine?
This is a loss of color in the skin in blotches.
What is vitiligo?
The primary protein which makes up hair
What is keratin?
The three main functions of skin
Protection, Sensation, Heat Regulation
These are the two places where nails can be found
What are fingers and toes?
These glands can inhibit bacteria, keep us waterproof, and prevent our hair and skin from drying out.
What are sebaceous glands?
These are the two fibers which make up the dermis.
What are collagen and elastin?
Another name for the disease of pattern baldness?
The percentage of body weight the skin makes up
What is 15%?
They are the root, nail bed, nail plate, eponychium, paronychium, and hyponychium
What are the six parts of a nail?
These glands produce milk and are composed of alveoli
What are mammary glands?
Where the ceruminous glands sit
What is the outer third of the cartilaginous portion of the human ear canal?
These are the three main functions of hair
What are protection, regulation of body temperature, and facilitation of evaporation of perspiration?
The two main layers of the skin
Epidermis and Dermis
This is another name for onchomycosis
What is nail fungus?
The five types of glands
What are Eccrine, Apocrine, Sebaceous, Ceruminous, Mammary?
What is the epidermis?