Anatomy Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
Q

The part of the hair enclosed in the follicle is?

A

Hair root

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2
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Another name of the upper part of the dermis is

A

Papillary

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3
Q

Sudoriferous glands

A

Sweat glands

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4
Q

The apocrine gland largely is confined to what part of the body?

A

Axillary area

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5
Q

What is the outermost covering of the hair follicle?

A

Dermal Sheath

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6
Q

What part of the hair root divides to form hair cells?

A

Matrix

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7
Q

Where is the eccrine gland found?

A

All over the body

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8
Q

What is the center core of a hair follicle?

A

Medulla

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9
Q

What happens to the capillaries in the skin when exposed to extremely high areas.

A

They will dilate so the blood will flush to the capillaries and heat will be dispersed.

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10
Q

What makes a healthy person with fair skin have a pinkish hue?

A

It is the result of crimson color of oxygenated hemoglobin circulation through the dermal capillaries and reflecting through the dermis.

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11
Q

What is the nail matrix and what is it responsible for?

A

It is the thickened portion of the nail and is responsible for nail growth.

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12
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What are two types of sudoriferous glands?

A

Eccrine and apocrine

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13
Q

What is the outmost layer of the epidermis?

A

Stratum corneum

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14
Q

What does the hair bud produce?

A

Hair

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15
Q

What is the reason the nail bed appears pink

A

It is the absence of melanocytes in the underlying dermis.

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16
Q

The major portion of the skin is composed of what?

A

Dermis

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17
Q

What is a second degree burn?

A

A burn that is painful and blisters.

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18
Q

Where are the mucus membranes?

A

They line the body cavities that are open to the exterior.

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19
Q

What is the visceral pleura?

A

A serous membrane that covers the external surface of both lungs.

20
Q

What is the order of the outside to inside layers of the epidermis?

A

Corneum, Lucidum, Granulosum, Spinosum, Basale

21
Q

Where are melanocytes found?

A

In the stratum basale

22
Q

What are most external region is composed of?

A

Stratified squamous epithelial

23
Q

Where are sweat and oil glands found?

A

Dermis

24
Q

What is the primary secretion of the eccrine gland made up of?

A

Uric acid, 99% water, salt, lactic acid, vitamin C

25
Q

What are all the epithelial tissue membranes?

A

serous, mucous, cutaneous

26
Q

What is the vernix caseosa?

A

Whitish material produced by fetal sebaceous glands

27
Q

When the body temp rises what is activated?

A

eccrine gland

28
Q

What is the stratum lucidum?

A

A layer of the epidermis, in which cells first die because of lack of nutrients and oxygen

29
Q

What is the first threat of the third degree burn?

A

Dehydration

30
Q

Male pattern baldness has a genetic switch that turns on due to what?

A

Age

31
Q

What is the parietal pericardium layer?

A

The covering that lines the outer layer of the heart

32
Q

What is the layer that touches the heart?

A

Visceral pericardium

33
Q

What are fingernails a modification of?

A

Epidermis

34
Q

What is the hypodermis made up of?

A

Adipose tissue

35
Q

The rule of 9 is used to classify what?

A

Burns

36
Q

Why are the sebaceous glands important?

A

They make the hair and skin soft and flexible

37
Q

The epidermis has no what?

A

Blood supply

38
Q

Where are mucous membranes located?

A

Anywhere there is an opening to the outside

39
Q

How does nutrients reach the epidermis?

A

Through the process of diffusion

40
Q

What type of damage does the skin protect us from?

A

Mechanical, chemical, bacterial, thermal, UV, desiccation

41
Q

What are the skins functions?

A

Protects, aids in heat regulation, aids in excretion of uric acid and urea, synthesizes vitamin D

42
Q

The tanning effect is somewhat protected from the sunlight because what?

A

Melanin

43
Q

What makes it so we do not swell up in pools?

A

Keratinized cells

44
Q

Where are the cutaneous membranes?

A

Skin

45
Q

What is the synovial membrane?

A

Connective tissue around a joint