5500267565 | bone, cartilage, muscle, adipose tissue | What are the underlying structures that give shape to the skin? | 0 | |
5500267566 | dermatology | What is the scientific study of the skin? | 1 | |
5500267567 | shock | Clinically what might an overall paleness of the integument indicate? | 2 | |
5500267568 | Increased body temp from exertion or infection. | Clinically what might an overall redness of the integument indicate? | 3 | |
5500267569 | Localized irritation from trauma or infection | Clinically what might a localized redness of the integument indicate? | 4 | |
5500267570 | skin | What organ is the integument? | 5 | |
5500267571 | It consists of all four primary tissue types. | Why is the skin considered an organ? (Think of the definition of an organ.) | 6 | |
5500267572 | All of them - epithelium, connective, muscle, nervous | Which of the four primary tissue types make up the integument? | 7 | |
5500267573 | epidermis & dermis | What are the two layers of the integument? | 8 | |
5500267574 | subcutaneous layer (subq or hypodermis) | What layer of tissue lies just deep to the integument? | 9 | |
5500267575 | the integument | "What organ has the following functions: protection, | 10 | |
5500267576 | prevention of water loss, temperature regulation, metabolic regulation, immune defense, sensory reception, excretion by means of secretion?" | 11 | ||
5500267577 | keratinized stratified squamous epithelium | What type of tissue makes up the epidermis? | 12 | |
5500267578 | avascular | The epidermis lacks blood vessels. What medical term describes this? | 13 | |
5500267579 | Palmar aspect of the hands and the plantar surface of the foot | Where is thick epidermis found? | 14 | |
5500267580 | Most of the body | Where is thin epidermis found? | 15 | |
5500267581 | hemoglobin, melanin, carotene | What three pigments contribute to skin color? | 16 | |
5500267582 | nevus (mole) | What is a harmless, localized overgrowth of melanin-forming cells? | 17 | |
5500267583 | freckle | What is a yellowish or brown spot caused by localized areas of excessive melanocyte activity rather than an increase in melanocyte number? | 18 | |
5500267584 | hemangioma | What is a congenital anomaly that results in skin discoloration due to blood vessels that proliferate and form a benign tumor? | 19 | |
5500267585 | friction ridges | What are contours of the skin surface that form ridge patterns on the palmar aspect of the hand and the plantar surface of the foot? | 20 | |
5500267586 | papillary layer | What layer of the dermis is superficial and contains capillaries and sensory receptors? | 21 | |
5500267587 | reticular layer | What layer of the dermis is deeper and contains large amounts of collagen and consists primarily of dense irregular connective tissue? | 22 | |
5500267588 | lines of cleavage | What are parallel bundles of collagen and elastic fibers in the skin resulting from the direction of applied stress during routine movement? | 23 | |
5500267589 | Any procedure resulting in a cut a right angles to a cleavage line is usually pulled open due to recoil from cut elastic fibers resulting in slow healing and increased scarring. | Why are lines of cleavage clinically important? | 24 | |
5500267590 | innervation | Nerve fibers are extensively dispersed throughout the dermis. What is this property of the distribution of nerves to or in a part of the body? | 25 | |
5500267591 | vasoconstriction & vasodilation | What two processes change the diameter of blood vessels and in the skin help regulate body temperature and blood pressure? | 26 | |
5500267592 | protection, energy reservoir, thermal insulation | What are the functions of subcutaneous fat? | 27 | |
5500267595 | "It is thicker in women. Adult males accumulate subq fat primarily at the neck, upper arms, abdomen, along the lower back, and over the buttocks. Adult females accumulate it primarily in the breasts, posterior brachium, shoulders, hips, and thighs." | How does the distribution of subcutaneous fat differ between men and women? | 28 | |
5500267596 | nails | What are scalelike modifications of the epidermis that form the dorsal surfaces of the tips of the fingers and toes? | 29 | |
5500267597 | Protection, improve the grip | What are the functions of the nails? | 30 | |
5500267598 | nail matrix | What is the area of active growth in a nail? | 31 | |
5500267599 | lunula | What is the whitish, semilunar area at the proximal end of a nail? | ![]() | 32 |
5500267600 | hair | What is a filament of keratinized cells? | 33 | |
5500267601 | lanugo | What is the fine, unpigmented, downy hair that first appears on the fetus in the last trimester? | ![]() | 34 |
5500267602 | vellus | What is the fine, unpigmented or lightly pigmented hair found on the arms and legs? | 35 | |
5500267603 | terminal hair | What is the usually coarse, pigmented hair found in the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, axilla, and pubic region and the faces of adult males? | 36 | |
5500267604 | hair bulb | What is the swelling at the base of the hair and lying within the dermis? | ![]() | 37 |
5500267605 | root | What is the portion of a hair from the bulb to the surface? | 38 | |
5500267606 | shaft | What is the portion of a hair that extends beyond the skin surface? | 39 | |
5500267607 | hair follicle | What is the oblique tube of epithelium that surrounds a hair? | ![]() | 40 |
5500267608 | arrector pili muscles | What smooth muscles produce "goose bumps"? | ![]() | 41 |
5500267609 | hair | "What organ has the following functions: protection, | 42 | |
5500267610 | heat retention, facial expression, sensory reception, visual identification, chemical signal dispersal?" | 43 | ||
5500267611 | eccrine (merocrine) glands | What type of sweat gland functions in thermoregulation? | 44 | |
5500267612 | apocrine glands | What type of sweat gland produces a distinct odor? | ![]() | 45 |
5500267613 | sebaceous glands | What type of gland produces sebum to keep the skin and hair from becoming dry? | ![]() | 46 |
5500267614 | ceruminous glands | What type of gland is located within the external ear canal? | 47 | |
5500267615 | mammary glands | What glands produce milk? | ![]() | 48 |
5500267616 | ectoderm | What germ layer gives rise to the epidermis? | 49 | |
5500267617 | mesoderm | What germ layer gives rise to the dermis? | 50 |
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