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A physician who specializes in diseases and disorders of the skin, hair, and nails.
What is a dermatologist?
The function of subcutaneous tissue.
What is gives the body smoothness and contour?
The role of the barrier function.
What is keeps the skin moist by preventing water evaporation?
The medical branch of science that deals with the study of the skin and its nature, structure, functions, diseases and treatment.
What is Dermatology?
The outermost and thinnest layer of the skin, and consists of five layers.
What is the epidermis?
Protects the skin cells by absorbing and blocking ultraviolet radiation.
What is the function of melanin?
What is the amount of melanin activated in the skin and the way it is distributed?
Sensory nerve fibers
What is send messages to the central nervous system and brain to react to heat, cold, touch, pressure and pain?
Melanin that is dark brown to black in color.
What is eumelanin?
Motor nerve fibers
What is exclusively transmit impulses from the brain or spinal cord to the muscles or glands?
The body's way of heat regulation.
What is the evaporation of sweat?
The fibrous protein that is also the principal component of the hair, skin and nails.
What is keratin?
Melanin that is red to yellow in color.
What is pheomelanin?
A protective barrier made up of sebum, lipids, sweat, and water that forms a hydrolipidic film to protect the skin from drying out and from exposure to external factors that could damage it.
What is the acid mantle?
Glands that are connected to the hair follicles and secrete sebum.
What is sebaceous glands?
Secretory nerve fibers
What is control the flow of sebum to the surface of the skin?
The fatty or oily secretion that lubricates the skin and preserves the softness of the hair.
What is Sebum?
Skin color whether fair, medium, or dark is dependent primarily upon it.
What is melanin?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
Gives the skin flexibility and elasticity.
What is elastin?
Fibrous connective tissue that gives the skin form and strength.
What is collagen?
The deeper layer of the dermis that supplies the skin with oxygen and nutrients.
What is the recticular layer?
Small muscles attached to hair follicles.
What is Arrector pili muscles?
Excrete perspiration and detoxify the body by excreting excess salt and unwanted chemicals.
What is the sudoriferous glands?
Small, cone-shaped elevations at the bottom of the hair follicles.
What is dermal papillae?