Anatomy
The medical branch of science that deals with the study of skin.
What is dermatology?
Water composes this percentage of the body's weight.
What is 50-70%?
Physician who specializes in disorders and disease of the skin.
Dermatologist
Excessive sweating
Hyperhidrosis
most dangerous form of skin cancer
malignant melanoma
Name the largest organ of the body
what is the skin?
This vitamin accelerates the skin's healing process.
What is Vitamin C?
Flat spot or discoloration of the skin.
Macule
Dermatitis
Burning rays are also known as this
UVB rays
Outermost layer of the skin
What is epidermis?
What does RDA stand for.
What is Recommended Daily Allowance?
Small elevation of the skin that contain no fluid.
Papule
Contagious bacterial skin infection characterized by weeping lesions.
Impetigo
this percentage of symptoms of aging skin are caused by accumulation of damaging rays of the sun
80-85%
Two types of melanin.
What is Phoemelanin and Eumelanin?
Vitamin that aids in health, function and repair of skin cells.
Vitamin A
crack in the skin that penetrates the dermis.
Fissure
Hereditary condition that causes milky white splotches of skin
Vitiligo
most common type of skin cancer and is least severe
Basal cell carcinoma
Sebaceous glands are not found on this part of the body.
what is palms?
Vitamin helps protect the skin from harmful effects of the sun's UV light.
Vitamin E
Example of a scale
dandruff or psoriasis
Technical term for freckles
Lentigines
more serious skin cancer often characterized by scaly red papules or nodules.
squamous cell carcinoma