Functions
What is the largest organ in the body?
Skin
What is the most superficial layer of skin
Epidermis
What gland responds to excess heat?
Sweat (sudofriferous) glands
Our hair and nails is made of what type of cells: dead or alive
Dead cells
What vitamin do we get from the sun?
Vitamin D
What is the middle layer of the skin?
Dermis
Which sweet glands would produce water, proteins, and fat that when mixed .....stink?
Apocrine
Strands of hair grow within the dermis from this structure
Follicles
What pigment is produced in the presence of sunlight?
Melanin
Where would you find adipose (fat cells)
subdermis
What is the only gland found in the ear?
ceruminous
What are the three structures that each arm hair contains
muscle, nerve, and oil glands
What function of our skin is an example of homeostasis?
helps us maintain our body temperature
Name two things that the Dermis contain but the Epidermis doesn't?
Nerves & Blood vessels & hair follicle & glands & muscle
What condition is caused by a clogged sebacious gland that spreads under the skin
acne
True or false... the more melanin in your skin, the darker it is?
True
What happens when your body temperature becomes too warm?
Body produces sweat!
What is the bottom layer of the epidermis called (the one that makes the new cells).
Stratum basale
What gland is attacked by using only anti-antiperspirant
eccrine sweat glands
Which part of the nail provides protection from bacteria entering
cuticle