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Epidermis
Dermis
Hair and Hair Follicles
Disorders
Glands
100
These are the areas where you would expect thick skin
What are palms and soles
100
Is made up of _______________ tissue? (general)
What is connective?
100
surrounds the medulla and hold the hair pigment
What is the cortex?
100
Skin appears yellow as a Result of a Liver disease.
What is jaundice?
100
This type of gland produce normal sweat and is the most common type of sweat gland
What is the eccrine gland?
200
These cells are part of the nervous system and help detect sense of touch
What are Merkel cells
200
The upper layer of the dermis which is responsible for creating dermal ridges
What is the papillary layer?
200
Sensory nerve endings surrounding the hair follicle: detect touch
What is root hair plexus?
200
Melanocytes stop working, a person with the condition suffers from patches of skin with no pigment
What is vitiligo?
200
These glands become active at puberty and produce "funky sweat", located in axillary and anogenital areas
What is aprocrine glands?
300
These cells form deep in the epidermis and undergo continual mitosis. Also produce a water proofing protein
What are keratinocytes?
300
Made up of reticular tissue and makes up the lower portion of the dermis
What is the reticular layer.
300
List 3 of the 6 functions of hair
What warmth, bug detection, protection- UV, protection- debris, filters air and protects physical trauma
300
Person appears blue due to No/Low oxygen
What is cyanosis?
300
produces an oil called sebum
What are sebaceous glands?
400
These cells are a type of white blood cell that engulf pathogens
What are Langerhans cells.
400
Found below the dermis and made up primarily of adipose tissue
What is the hypodermis? (or subcutaneous layer)
400
Muscle Responsible for horripiltations
What is arrector pili muscle?
400
This is a fluid filled separation of the epidermis from the dermis.
What is a blister?
400
This type of gland is associated with hair follicles.
What are sebaceous glands?
500
Use an organelle called a melanosome to produce a skin pigment that protects against UV rays
What is a melanocyte?
500
Receptors for pressure
What are Pacinian corpuscles?
500
This hair type is more coarse and found on eyebrows, scalp and adult male body hair
What is terminal hair?
500
Whiteheads appear in adults. What similar disorder appears in infants?
What is milia?
500
Two types of sudoriferous glands
What are eccrine and apocrine?