A&P - Chapter 10 (Part 4)

Question 1

Receptors

Answer 1

Are specialized nerve endings that make it possible for skin to act as a sense organ

Question 2

What do receptors do?

Answer 2

They relay messages to the brain of touch, pain, temperature and pressure

Question 3

What do krause end bulbs allow you to feel?

Answer 3

Low frequency vibrations

- fine touch

Question 4

What do free nerve endings allow you to feel?

Answer 4

Pain

Question 5

What are 2 types of skin glands?

Answer 5

1. Sudoriferous glands
   - sweat
2. Sebaceous glands
   - oil

Question 6

What are 2 types of sudoriferous glands?

Answer 6

1. Eccrine

2. Appocrine

Question 7

Eccrine

Answer 7

Is the most numerous, important and widespread sweat gland

Question 8

What does eccrine produce?

Answer 8

Sweat

Question 9

How is sweat eliminated?

Answer 9

Through pores

Question 10

What eccrine glands assist with?

Answer 10

Body heat regulation

Question 11

When do eccrine start working?

Answer 11

Through your whole life

Question 12

Where do you find apocrine glands? (2)

Answer 12

1. Armpit

2. Genitalia

Question 13

What is the odor of apocrine glands caused by?

Answer 13

The breakdown of bacteria

Question 14

What does the apocrine gland include?

Answer 14

The ceruminous gland

- ear wax

Question 15

Where do you find sebaceous glands?

Answer 15

Where ever hair grows

Question 16

What does sebaceous glands do?

Answer 16

They secrete oil for hair and skin

Question 17

When does the level of secretion of sebaceous glands increase?

Answer 17

During adolescence

Question 18

When do apocrine cells occur?

Answer 18

Onset at puberty

Question 19

How is the amount of secretion by sebaceous glands regulated?

Answer 19

By sex hormones

Question 20

What forms blackheads?

Answer 20

Sebum in sebaceous gland ducts that darken

Question 21

What decreases with age, with sebaceous glands?

Answer 21

Secretion

Question 22

Ceruminous gland

Answer 22

Specialized sweat cell

Question 23

Where is the ceruminous gland located?

Answer 23

In the ear

Question 24

What does the ceruminous gland make?

Answer 24

Ear wax

- by mixing their secretions with sebum

Question 25

What does ear wax do?

Answer 25

Protects the skin of the ear canal from dehydration

Question 26

What can ear wax do?

Answer 26

Build up and may cause blockages

Question 27

Where is vitamin D produced?

Answer 27

In the superficial layer of the skin

Question 28

Where is sexual hormones produced?

Answer 28

Deeper in the body

- under the skin