Homeostasis
The process of maintaining steady conditions within the human body.
What is Homeostasis?
The even distribution of tools and assistance.
What is equality?
The outermost layer of the epidermis also known as the first layer of defense.
What is the stratum corneum?
The fibers found in the skin that provide elasticity to the tissue.
What are elastin fibers?
The abnormal death of cells or tissue in the body.
What is necrosis?
The feedback mechanism that is used to maintain the temperature of the body.
What is negative feedback?
A family does not have access to medical insurance. What does this lead to?
What is lack of quality care?
This layer contains eleidin proteins and can be found in thick skin tissue.
What is the stratum lucidum?
The structure in the skin that is responsible for sensing texture and pressure.
What are the tactile discs?
The part of a neuron that receives signals from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
The feedback mechanism that is used during child birth.
What is positive feedback?
A factor about skin color now known as a social construct.
What is race?
This layer contains stem cells that are used to regenerate the tissue in the skin.
What is the stratum basale?
A prohormone in the liver that is used to retain calcium uptake in the human body.
What is calcifediol?
Forms the floor of the thoracic cavity separating it from the abdominopelvic cavity
What is the diaphragm?
This happens to the vessels in the skin when internal body temperature starts to rise.
What is Vasodilation?
This is the term for when large parts of our identity overlap.
What is intersectionality?
The two types of tissue that make up the dermal layer of the skin.
What are the papillary areolar tissue and the reticular tissue?
The structure in the skin that provides nutrients to the hair follicle for necessary growth.
What is the papilla?
The head area of the human body, which includes the skull, face, scalp, and brain
What is the cephalic region?
The component in a feedback system that causes the changes in the body to reverse the stimulation and return to the set-point.
What is an Effector?
The subconscious feelings, attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes an individual has developed due to prior influences and imprints throughout their lives
What is implicit biases?
What is the main function of adipose tissue found in the hypodermis.
What is the storage of energy?
After skin injury, excess collagen production can lead to the formation of a raised thick scar that extends beyond the origin of the original would. What is this scar called?
What is a keloid?
A type of loosely organized animal embryonic connective tissue of undifferentiated cells that give rise to most tissues, such as skin, blood, or bone.
What is the mesenchyme?