Integumentary sytem
What is the protein that provides strength to the skin system?
What is the Keratin?
What root word means an "Outer covering particularly in an animal"?
What is "Integument"?
What accessory part of the system has the hair root enclosed?
What is the hair follicle?
Most superficial (think of this definition) layer?
What is the epidermis
Does the epidermis have a blood supply?
What is no?
Body system made up of skin, hair, and nails:
What is the integumentary system?
Tough, leathery fibrous connective tissue, that holds the glands,blood vessels
What is the dermis?
What is another name for the hypodermis?
What is the subcutaneous layer?
List the layers of skin from deep to superficial:
What is the hypodermis, dermis, and epidermis?
Are nails made of bone?
What is NO?
What layer is mostly fat, anchors skin to underlying structures
What is the subcutaneous layer / hypodermis?
What protein that all humans have in their skin that protects it from UV radiation and gives its color??
What is melanin?
What layer of the skin is highly vascularized?
What is Dermis?
Function:Secretes oil
What is the function of subaceous glands?
What type of CELL gives the skin its color
What is melanocytes?
Spell the cell that makes keratin?
What is k-e-r-a-t-i-n-o-c-y-t-e?
Which of the four tissues are involved in the skin system?
What are all four: nervous, connective, Epithelial, and muscle
This gland helps regulate my body temperature?
What are sweat glands?