System
This is the name for the system that includes skin, hair, and nails.
This is the term for glands which secrete to the outside of the body.
This is the term for the portion of the hair that sits above the skin.
What is the shaft?
This is the skin's main pigment, determining darkness of color.
What is melanin?
This is the term for a spot that is neither raised nor depressed, and can be both a common feature of skin or a pathology.
What is a macule?
This is the outermost layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
These glands secrete an oily substance that lubricates the skin and prevents hair from drying.
What are sebaceous glands?
This is the term for the root of the hair.
What is a follicle?
This is the term for yellowing of the skin.
What is jaundice?
This is the name for the method of determining extent of burns.
What is the Rule of Nines?
This is the second layer of the skin, containing blood vessels, nerve endings, and glands.
What is the dermis?
These glands secrete breast milk.
What are mammary glands?
These are contributing factors to quality of skin repair.
What are nutrition, blood supply, infection, and age? (Answers may vary slightly.)
This is the term for paling of the skin.
What is pallor?
This is the term for a sore associated with degradation and death of tissue.
What is an ulcer?
This is the deeper layer of the skin, which is sometimes referred to as superficial fascia.
What is the subcutaneous layer?
These glands secrete sweat throughout the skin.
What are eccrine glands?
This is the main protein associated with scar tissue and healing.
What is collagen?
This is the pigment that carries oxygen in red blood cells, giving blood its color and making it visible beneath the surface of the skin.
What is hemoglobin?
This is the term for a crack in the skin.
What is a fissure?
These are an accessory feature of the integumentary system, made of hardened keratin.
What are nails?
These glands secrete ear wax.
What are ceruminous glands?
This is the term for absorption through the skin.
What is transdermal?
This is the skin pigment which makes skin appear more orange.
What is carotene?
What is total contraindication?