A | B |
What are the two types of body membranes | Epithelial and Connective |
The skin is what type of membrane? | Cutaneous |
Open body cavities use which membranes? | Mucous |
Closed body cavities use which membranes? | Serous |
Joints and Tendons use which type of membranes? | Synovial |
What do all membranes have in common? | Layers |
What do serous and Mucous membranes have in common? | Visceral and periatal layers |
Peritoneum is located where? | Abdomen |
The pluera cavity is located where? | Lungs |
The Pericardium is located where? | Heart |
P. acnes, hormones, keritonocytes, and hair follicles filled with oil cause... | acne |
Benzoyl Peroxide | Destroys P. acnes and reduces oil production |
Resorcinol and sulfur both... | break down blackheads and whiteheads |
Salicylic Acid | breaks down blackheads and whiteheads cut down the shedding of cells lining the hair follicles |
What does not cause acne? | Caffeine, Chocolate, food, dirt, and stress |
Who gets acne? | Everyone. Slows at 40 to 50 |
An organ made of cutaneous membrane, stratified squamous epithelium and dense connective tissue is... | skin |
Are skin and the integumentary system synonomous? | No. Skin (cutaneous membrane) is only a part of the integumentary system. |
Integument means... | covering |
What are the parts of the integumentary system? | sweat and oil glands, hair, nails, and cutaneous membrane |
What are the jobs of the skin? | Regulate heat loss, Excretes urea, salts, and water, water retention, makes proteins, synthesizes Vit. D, Integrates with the nervous system to provide a sense of touch. |
What are the three layers of the skin? | Epidermis, Dermis, Hypodermis |
What does keratin do? | becomes hard for protection |
Most of the epidermis is avascular... this means... | It does not have a blood supply and is therefore dead |
What cells produce pigment? | Melanocytes create a pigment called melanin |
Append | to hang on |
What are the skin appendages? | glands, hair, and nails |
All appendages are part of which layer of the skin? | Epidermis |
What guards the head and eyes.., | hair |
Only which hair retains body heat? | Head hair |
Most body hair has no major function and is considered... | vestigial |
What does hair grow from? | hair follicles |
the hair bulb matrix | zone of hair growth that contains melanin |
Bottom of hair is called the | root |
the root of the hair is enclosed in the | hair follicle |
Exiting the skin the hair grows out of the | shaft |
What are the three layers of hair? | Medulla, cortex, cuticle |
Which layer protects agains abrasion? | Cuticle |
What makes hair look different? | Amount of melanin, shape of hair |
The more hooked the hair follicle the more __________ the hair. | curly |
what does the nail grow from? | the root grows from the nail matrix |
What makes nail so hard... | Keratinized |
What does the nail grow down? | Nail bed |
What is the moon shape at the beginning of the nail called? | Lunula |
What do melanocytes do? | Produce pigments to protect the cells DNA |
What layer of the skin makes leather? | Dermis |
What do sweat glands do? | Maintain body temp and excrete waste |
What is the job of the dermis? | Protects, maintains body temp, produce sensation, |
What are the main cutaneous glands? | sebaceous, and sweat glands |
Cutaneous glands that excrete to the outside are called... | exocrine glands |
What do sebaceous glands produce? | Oil |
What is skin oil or sebum for? | softening, water retention, killing bacteria |
When testosterone levels are high what is produced in excess? | hair |
Sweat glands do what? | Maintain homeostasis and excrete waste |
What are the two types of sweat glands | Eccrine and apocrine |
Eccrine Glands do what | cover body, contain water, salt, vitaman C, wastes, and lactic acid |
Eccrine glands have a pH between | 4 and 6, it is antibacterial |
When do eccrine glands develop? | 4th month of gestation |
Where are appocrine glands located? | auxilliary and genital areas |
What creates body odor? | apocrine glands make a milky-yellow color that is oderless untill bacteria eat it. |
When do apocrine glands develop? | 6th month of gestation |
Why do you not have wrinkles when you are young? | Collagen, elastic fibers, loose fat are high. |
What does collagen do? | Keeps skin strong and hydrated |
What do elastic fibers do? | keep skin elastic |
What happens when the epidermis and dermis separate? | a blister |
What causes goose bumps | Arrector pili that attach to hair follicles and contract |
What is the job of the hypodermis? | Anchors the skin, absorbs shock, insulates, gives shape to fatty areas of the body |
What is a bedsore? | Decubitus ulcer caused by the pinching off of blood supply to the skin. |
What is it called when you turn blue? | Cyanosis |
When do people get cyanosis? | When they are oxygen deprived...heart attack |
What is jaundice | bile from the liver is absorbed by the blood. Person yellows. |
What causes jaundice? | Liver disease |
What is a hematoma? | Bruise |
What causes a hematoma? | blood escaping from damaged blood vessels |
What is alopecia? | balding |
Too much testosterone and hair growth lead to... | alopecia |
What do smoking and sun do to the epidermis? | Cause leathery skin, cold sores, depressed immune system due to DNA damage |