Integumentary Vocab
What is the Integumentary System?
The Integumentary System includes Hair, Nails, Skin, glands and sensory to protects the body from harmful and dangerous injuries, such as Cuts that become infected. An infection gets fought off by using a layer around the cut.
The type of parasite responsible for scabies is the louse, or is it a mite?
mite!
This glands function is thermoregulation, (temperature control keeping us cool)
The Sweat Gland
Name 4 factore in the skin that causes the skin condition known as acne vulgaris?
You have 10 seconds
Name a study of the Integumentary System
Dermatology, Or the Study of the skin, Hair and Nails.
What are Sebaceous Glands?
They are responsible for producing oil and releasing it to moisturize the surface of the skin.
Did you know? Integumentary Interactions
The Average Human Sheds 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
This is the regulation of body temperature through the release of sweat
Thermoregulation
What covers the skin?
Hair.
What is the Studies of Skin Microbes
These studies help Dermatologists, Medical Professionals and Doctors diagnose various Diseases, Fungi and Bacteria of the Skin.
What is the Roles of the Integumentary System?
The Roles of the Integumentary system is to Provide protection from inner parts of Organs and it provides a layer that helps keep the insides of the skin healthy.
Why is the Integumentary System so Vitally important?
You can choose anyone classmate for HELP.
Youu have 10 seconds
It protects us from infection and helps us sense the world around us and reacts to changes in the invironment to help main homeostasis
This cell produces pigment.
Melanocyte
What could go wrong with the Integumentary System?
Various Diseases. Bacteria and Significant Injuries can affect the Integumentary System and how it produces cells, fights off infection and heal injuries to the skin
Fingernails are hard plates on the end of fingers made of what?
keratin
Name two functions of the Integumentary in a Human?
Protection
secretion
absorbsion
sensation sensory/motor
Do you know what the largest organ system of the body is?
Integumentary system
What is the Name for the most outer layer?
The Epidermis
What is the Name of the Inner Layer?
Dermis
What is an abnormal growth of tissue occurring in the body,
Tumor
What is it called when the Integumentary System Malfunctions?
Lesions.
(moles, pimples, rashes and Cancer) can be caused by the Integumentary System Malfunctioning.
Name 4 conditions, disorders of the Integumentary System in 10 seconds
Skin Cancer, Sunburn, Acne, Psoriasis, Eczema, Blisters and Atrophy Scarring are all conditions or disorders of the Integumentary System
Redness on the skin is termed
erythema
What is a Nerve of the Integumentary System?
Sensory Nerves.
Dermatology
Dermatologists, Help diagnose Skin Diseases in the Integumentary System.