7. Skin

Question 1

Where can cytokeratin be found?

Answer 1

Tonofilaments

Question 2

What is the component found in the stratum granulosum?

Answer 2

Keratohyalin

Question 3

What layer is missing in thin skin?

Answer 3

Stratum Lucidum

Question 4

What cell is NOT found in the duct of merocrine sweat glands?

Answer 4

Myoepithelial cell

Question 5

What is the name of the immune cells found in the skin?

Answer 5

Langerhans cell

Question 6

What is the name of the cells which produce melanin?

Answer 6

Melanocytes

Question 7

What is the name of the deeper layer of dermis?

Answer 7

Reticular dermis

Question 8

What is the indicated structure

Answer 8

Arrector pili muscle

Question 9

What gland empties into hair follicles at the top?

Answer 9

Apocrine sweat gland

Question 11

The secretory portion of what gland is widely dilated?

Answer 11

Apocrine

Question 12

What gland empties into the base of hair hollicles?

Answer 12

Sebaceous gland

Question 13

Mitotic figures are most frequently seen in which layer of the skin?

Answer 13

Stratum germinativum

Question 14

What is the name of the dermis which is closest to the epidermis?

Answer 14

Papillary dermis

Question 15

Which is the main function of the eccrine sweat gland?

Answer 15

Thermoregulation

Question 16

What is the muscle that is attached to a hair follicle called?

Answer 16

arrector pili

Question 17

Which portion of the eccrine sweat gland is sometimes described as being pseudostratified?

Answer 17

Secrectory

Question 18

In which layer of the skin would you find “prickle cells”?

Answer 18

Stratum spinosum

Question 19

What gland in the skin secretes in a holocrine fashion?

Answer 19

Apocrine gland

Question 20

What is the organelle into which melanin is deposited?

Answer 20

Melanosome