Physiology & Histology of the Skin I
The basic material and building blocks of our body's tissues.
What are Proteins?
Theses are the openings for sweat glands.
What are pores?
This enzyme stimulates melanocytes and thus produces melanin.
What is Tyroinase?
this branch of medical science studies and treats the skin's disorders and diseases.
What is Dermatology?
These are groups of Furbuncles.
What are Carbuncles?
The film that protects the skin from drying out and from exposure from external factors.
What is Hydrolipidic?
This Vitamin is synthesized and produced in the skin upon exposure to the sun.
What is Vitamin D?
The body produces these two types of Melanin.
What are Pheomelanin and Eumelanin?
These are structural changes in the tissues caused by damage or injury.
What are Lesions?
This is a benign lesion that is dounut shaped and often seen in oilier areas of the face.
What is Sebaceous hyperplasia?
This function is the skins mechanism that protects us from irritation and intercellullar TEWL.
What is Barrier Function?
These are composed of keratin and compromise 95% of the epidermis.
What is Keratinocytes?
These two layers make up the Dermis.
What is the Papillary and Reticular Layers?
There are 3 various terms for Hypopigmentation.
What are Albinism, Leuokderma, and Vitiligo?
A skin condition characterized by inflammation, dry or oily scaling, crusting or itchiness and often appears on the eyebrows, scalp, hairline, middle of the forhead and along the sides of the nose.
What is Seborrheic dermatitis?
Proteins and peptides trigger these cell stimulators to rejuvenate and repair the skin.
What are Fibroblasts?
Daughter cells that are not able to divide anymore and are now programmed to end up as one specific type of cell.
What is Terminal Differentiation?
This structure is partially the cause of some skin disorders such as folliculitis.
What is a Hair follicle?
There are 10 Primary lesions of the skin.
What is a Bulla, Cyst, Macle, Nodule, papule, Pustule, Tubercle, Tumor, Vesicle, and Wheal.
An inflammatory skin condition caused by an allergic reaction from contact with a substance or chemical.
What is Contact dermatitis?
These 5 main layers make up the Epidermis.
What is the Stratum Corneum, Stratum Lucidum, Stratum Granulosum, Stratum Spinosum, Stratum Germinativum?
These 4 "M's are found in the basal layer?
What are Merkel cells, Melanocytes, Melanosomes and Melanin?
The body has two kinds of Sweat glands.
What are the Apocrine and Eccrine glands?
These 8 Secondary lesions of the skin develop in the later stages of disease and change the structure of tissues and organs.
What is the Crust, Excoriation, Acne excoriee, Fissure, Keloid, Scale, Scar, and Ulcer
Estheticians are not to perform any service on someone who has one of these 8 contagious diseases.
What are Conjunctivitis, Herpes simplex-1, Herpes simplex-2, herpes Zoster, Impetigo, Tinea, Tinea Corporis, and Warts (Verruca)