Layers
Number of layers of the skin
What are 2?
Protective coverings at the ends of fingers and toes
What are nails?
A holocrine gland typically associated with hair follicles, secretes an oily mixture
What are sebaceous glands?
The initial response to both a superficial wound and a deep wound
What is inflammation?
The process by which hair, skin, and nails are formed
What is keratinization?
The soles of the feet and palms of the hands have this epidermal layer
What is the stratum lucidum?
Causes hair to extend giving you "goosebumps"
What are arrector pili muscles?
Two major types of glands
What are sebaceous glands and sweat glands?
A superficial wound heals by
What is rapid cell division?
Specialized cells that give skin and hair color
What are melanocytes?
These ridges form our fingerprints
What are dermal papillae?
Hair is nourished by this structure
What is a sebaceous gland?
This oily substance keeps hair and skin soft and waterproof
What is sebum?
Symptoms of inflammation
What are redness, heat, swelling, and pain?
A liquid or semisolid build up in the sebaceous gland
What is a cyst?
Found in the dermis
What are blood vessels, hair roots, sensory receptors, and sebaceous glands?
The most active region of nails
What is the lunula?
The most numerous sweat gland that responds to elevated body temperature
What are eccrine glands?
A deep wound heals by (4 steps)
What are inflammation, scabbing, suturing, and forming a scab?
A loss of melanocytes
What is vitiligo?
The names of each epidermal layer (in descending order)
What are the stratum corneum, lucidium, granulosum, spinsoum, and basale
This fingernail grows the slowest and the other grows the fastest
What are the thumbnail and middle nail?
A modified sweat gland that secretes ear wax
What is the ceruminous gland?
These connective tissue cells become abundant in response to a large deep wound
What are fibroblasts and granulations?
The body's responses to excess heat (hint: two responses)
What is sweat and vasodilation of blood vessels