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Layers
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Injury, Burns, and Disease
Physiology and Functions
Potpourri
100
The second layer of the skin?
What is the dermis?
100

Made of dead cells and keratin

What are hair and nails

100
The classification of burns.
What is 1st degree, 2nd degree, and 3rd degree?
100
Something that is produced when exposed to UV light/
What is vitamin D?
100
Product of the sebaceous gland.
What is sebum?
200
Another name for the hypodermis
What is subcutaneous tissue?
200
A tiny muscle associated with each hair follicle.
What is the arrector pili?
200
The most lethal type of cancer in this system.
What is melanoma?
200
The five functions of the Integumentary system/
What are protection, sensation, vitamin D production, temperature regulation, and excretion?
200
The little white thing that can be seen at the base of the nail.
What is the lunula?
300
The most superficial and the deepest layer of the epidermis respectively.
What are the stratum corneum and the stratum basale?
300
The two major glands of this system.
What are the sebaceous and sweat glands?
300

A raised area on the skin filled with clear fluid.

What are vesicles?

300

Mitosis takes place here

What is stratum basale?

300
The cells that produce the chemical responsible for skin pigmentation.
What are melanocytes?
400
The tissue that for the most part makes up the epidermis.
What is stratified squamous epithelium?
400

A structure that produces liquid to cool the body of and a structure that produces liquid that makes a smell when you start puberty.

What are the sudiferious and apocrine sweat glands

400
The cause of warts.
What are uncontrolled growths of the epidermis?
400
The function of vitamin D.
What is normal bone metabolism and normal muscle function?
400
The disease where melanocytes do not do their job.
What is albinism?
500
It provides nourishment to the epidermis and is present on the palms, feet and finger tips to give better traction and friction.
What are dermal papillae?
500

Reason 50% of the population doesn't have a visible lunula

What is because the cuticle grew over it?

500
Another name for 3rd degree burns.
What are full thickness burns?
500

3 products that are removed from the system in the form of sweat.

What are urea, uric acid, and ammonia?

500

Another name for redness.

What is erythema?