Skin Layers
This is the outermost layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
The prefix ‘hypo-’ means this.
What is below or deficient?
This condition is characterized by the absence of hair where it normally grows
Alopecia
This gland produces oil to lubricate the skin.
Sebaceous gland
This type of skin cancer appears as a transparent bump on sun-exposed areas
Basal cell carcinoma
This layer contains collagen, hair follicles, and sweat glands.
What is the dermis
The medical term for abnormal condition excessive sweat.
What is hyperhidrosis?
This common fungal infection appears as a red circular rash.
What is tinea corporis (ringworm)
The medical term for the oily secretion produced by sebaceous glands
This is the most dangerous type of skin cancer.
Melanoma
This deepest layer of the skin contains fat and connective tissue.
Subcutaneous layer
The meaning of the term leukocytosis
A bacterial skin infection common in children that causes honey-colored crusting around the mouth.
Impetigo
The sweat gland contribute to thermoregulation by producing...
sweat
This diagnostic procedure removes thin layers of cancerous tissue for examination.
Moh's Surgery
The layer of the epidermis where new skin cells are produced.
What is the stratum basale or basal layer
The root word ‘cutane’ refers to this
What is the skin?
A chronic autoimmune skin disease that causes rapid skin cell turnover due to overgrowth in the basal layer. Characterized by gray scales.
Psoriasis.
The difference between sweat glands and sebaceous glands.
What is sweat glands regulate temperature, sebaceous glands produce oil for lubrication?
A deep crack in the skin, often seen in mechanics with dry hands or feet
Fissure
This layer of the skin provides insulation and energy storage.
What is the hypodermis?
The meaning of ‘epidermolysis’
breakdown upon skin
A term to describe intense itching
pruritis
These glands are responsible for body odor.
What are apocrine sweat glands?
A lesion that results from the loss of the epidermis.
erosion