What 3 things make up the integumentary system?
Skin
Hair
Nails
The trachea and larynx are lined with this flexible connective tissue.
Cartilage
What is the functional unit of the kidney
Nephron
The important gas that we inhale when breathing
oxygen
True or False
Your skin is one of your body's major defenses
True
The second layer of the skin is called ______
Dermis
Name the two functions of the respiratory system.
Supple oxygen to the blood
Remove waste gases (CO2)
What are the 2 things that make up the renal corpuscle?
Bowman's capsule
Glomerulus
What are the 4 epidermal cell population?
Keratinocyte
Melanocyte
Langerhans
Merkel
True or false
Sweat has odour.
False
What is the layer of skin where fat is deposited and stored?
Hypodermis
In alveoli the oxygen goes into the blood, and carbon dioxide from the blood goes into the air. This is called ....
gas exchange
transitional
Filtration in the kidney occurs here
glomerulus
What is the epithelium is skin
SSK
What are the 2 other things you will find around a sebaceous gland?
Hair follicle
Arrector Pili
The trachea branches into two ....
Bronchi
What filtration happens at the renal corpuscle?
blood filtration
From the Bronchi to the bronchioles, what is missing?
cartilage
What are the 4 cell population in the epidermis?
- Keratinocyte
-Melanocyte
-Merkel
-Langerhan
Double the points... What are the 4 functions of the skin?
Sensation
Temperature Regulation
Protection
Making Vitamin D
What epithelium would you find in the trachea?
Double the points... what are the differences between the PCT and DCT
- placement of nuclei
-microvilli
-PCT is eosinophillic
-DCT lumen is clean
The oil glands that are located next to each hair follicle secrete oil keep the ____________ and _____________ soft, flexible and water resistant
skin
hair
How can you tell thick skin from thin skin?
(hint: 5 things)
Double the points!
- Lucidum layer
-dermal papillae
-more layers
-absence of hair follicles, sebaceous glands & arrector pili muscles
- more sweat glands