4 Basic Tissue Types
The four basic types of tissue
What is epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous?
The 3 types of classifications by cell shape
What is squamous, cuboidal, and columnar?
The dermis is composed of what kind of tissue..
What is connective?
Most common form of skin cancer
What is basal cell carcinoma?
The two categories of epithelial tissue
What is epithelium and glandular epithelium?
Glands that do not have ducts to transport secretion
What are endocrine glands?
Name 3 functions of the integumentary system
What is protection, prevention of water loss, regulation of body temp, excretion of waste products, synthesis of vitamin D, and sensory reception?
Skin cancer that accounts for 77% of skin cancer deaths
What is melanoma?
Most common type of connective tissue cells
Fibroblasts
The only cell in the nervous system capable of conducting nerve impulses
What is a neuron?
Name the 3 types of glands in the dermis
Persistent thick, rough, scaly patch that has a raised border and bleeds if bumped
What is squamous cell carcinoma?
Connective tissue cells that provide protection from disease causing agents
What are leukocytes?
Name 3 of the connective tissue types
Cells that function as touch receptors
What are merkel cells?
Rare chronic blistering skin disease where desmosomes attaching adjacent skin cells are destroyed, cells separate, and blisters form
What is pemphigus vulgaris?
Connective Tissue Cells that mediate the inflammatory response
Macrophages are a type of..
What are connective tissue cells?
List the 5 zones of keratinocytes starting from the innermost layer
What is
1.Stratum basale
2. Stratum spinosum
3. Stratum granulosum
4. Stratum lucidum
5. Stratum corneum
ABCDE stands for..
What is
A: assymetry
B: border
C: color
D: diameter
E: evolving