Anatomy of skin
Define Healthy Skin
Slightly Moist, soft, and flexible with a smooth, fine-grained texture.
Name the nerves of the skin
Motor Nerve
Sensory Nerve fibers
Secretory nerve fibers
Lesion
is a mark on the skin that may indicate an injury or damage that changes the structure of tissues or organs.
What appears most frequently on the face, especially in the T- zone the center of the face.
Comedones
General term for an inflammatory condition of the skin
Dermatitis
What is the thinnest and thickets layers of skin?
Eyelids is thinnest.
Palms of hands and soles of feet is thickest.
Melanin
Pigment that gives skin color
Are lesions that are different color than the color of the skin or lesions that are raised above the surface of the skin
Secondary skin lesions
Keratin filled cyst that appear under the epidermis and have no visible opening
Milia
Hyperpigmentation
means darker than normal pigmentation, appearing as dark splotches.
What are the two divisions of skin?
Epidermis and Dermis
Sebum
Lubricates the skin and preserves softness of the hair
A wheal is
an itchy, swollen lesion that can be cause by a blow, scratch, bite of an insect or sting.
Acne is
a skin disorder characterized by chronic inflammation of the sebaceous glands from retained secretions
is the absence of pigment, resulting in light or white splotches.
Hypopigmentation
Dermis is:
the underlying, or inner layer of the skin. Also called the Derma, or true skin.
When sebum becomes hardened and the duct becomes blocked, what is formed?
Blackhead
Examples of a wheal is
Hives, mosquito bites
Name the 4 disorders of the sweat glands
Anhidrosis
Bromhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis
Miliria rubra
Most common and least severe skin cancer
Basal cell carcinoma
Epidermis is:
Also, known as cuticle or scarf skin, is the outermost protective layer of the skin and is the thinnest layer of the skin.
The skin contains two types of duct glands which are
Sudoriferous glands(sweat glands)
Sebaceous glands(oil glands)
A thick scar resulting from excessive growth of fibrous tissue that will form along any type of scar for people susceptible to these.
Keloid
Rosacea
condition that appears primarily on the cheeks and nose
Least common of the cancers, but is 100% fatal if left
Malignant Melanoma