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Skin
Accessory structures
Regulation
Burns
Skin Cancer
100
The outermost layer of the skin
What is the epidermis?
100
contains a shaft, root, and bulb
What is hair?
100
The removal of waste products from the body
What is excretion?
100
These burns are also called full-thickness burns
What are third-degree burns?
100
The most frequent skin cancer
What is basal cell carcinoma?
200
A group of pigments responsible for hair, eye, and skin color
What is melanin?
200
The muscle responsible for hair standing up
What is the arrector pili?
200
The way the body loses heat by infrared energy
What is radiation?
200
This is a symptom of first and second-degree burns
What is edema?
200
Another word for when cancer spreads
What is metastasize?
300
The middle layer of the skin
What is the dermis?
300
The gland that produces sebum
What is the sebaceous gland?
300
These detect heat, pain, and pressure
What are receptors?
300
A burn that only involves the epidermis
What is a first-degree burn?
300
A very rare form of skin cancer
What is malignant melanoma?
400
The layer of the epidermis where there are cells filled with hard keratin
What is the stratum corneum?
400
A thin plate consisting of layers of dead stratum corneum cells
What is a nail?
400
An important substance that is modified in the liver and kidneys
What is vitamin D?
400
The name for the broader category of burns
What are partial-thickness burns?
400
A type of skin cancer that develops from cells immediately superficial to the stratum basale
What is squamos cell carcinoma?
500
Another word for stretch marks that occur during pregnancy
What is striae?
500
The gland that is activated during puberty
What is the apocrine gland?
500
These dilate and enable more blood flow through the skin when the body's temperature rises
What are blood vessels?
500
Healing for this burn takes about two weeks
What is second-degree burn?
500
The thing that skin cancer is most commonly associated with
What is ultraviolet light?