ANATOMY EXAM Flashcards
WHATS THE STUDY OF THE SKIN
DERMATOLOGY
SKINS OTHER NAMES
CUTANEOUS MEMBRANE
LARGEST ORGAN IN BODY
SKIN/ CUTANEOUS MEMBRANE
SUPERFICIAL, THINNER PORTION COMPOSED OF EPITHELIAL TISSUE
EPIDERMIS
LAYERS OF EPIDERMIS
STRATUM CORNEUM, STRATUM LUCIDUM ( IN THICK SKIN), STRATUM GRANULSOUM, STRATUM SPINOSUM, STRATUM BASLSE
DEEPER, THICKER CONNECTIVE TISSUE, COMPOSED OF IRREGULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE, ELASTIC AND RECOIL
DERMIS
COLLAGEN FIBERS, ELASTIC FIBERS, CONTAINS CAPPILARY LOOPS, DERMAL PAPILLAE CONTAINING FREE NERVES
PAPILLARY DERMIS
ATTACHED TO THE SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE, CONTAINING BUNDLES OF THICK COLLAGEN FIBERS
RETICULAR DERMIS
SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE DEEP TO THE DERMIS
HYPODERMIS
ELEVATION SOF PALMS,FEET AND STRAIGHT LINES OT PATTERNS OF LOOPS
EPIDERMAL RIDGES (FINGERPRINTS)
EXTENSIONS OF THE EPIDERMIS THAT PROJECT INTO DERMIS BETWEEN PAPILLAE
EPIDERMAL PEGS
FUNCTION OF INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
REGULATES BODY TEMP.
STORES BLOOD,
PROTECTS BODY FROM EXTERNAL ENVIROMENT ,
DETECTS CUTANEOUS SENSATION,
EXCRETES AND ABSORBS SUBSTANCES, SYNTHESIZES VITAMIN D
KERATINZATION
NEW CELLS OF KERATIN PUSHED FROM STRATUM BASLE TO STRATUM CORNEUM
NUTREINTS PASSED UP THOUGH STARTUMS
PSORIASIS
COMMON AND CHRONIC SKIN DISORDER IN WHICH KERATINOCYTES DIVIDE MORE AND MORE RESLUTING FLAKEY, SLIVERLY SCALE SKIN
STRIAE
STRETCH MARKS
CREATES SKIN COLOUR
MELANIN
CAROTENE
YELLOW-ORANGE PIGMENT
PARTS OF HAIR
HAIR SHAFT, HAIR ROOT, MEDULLA, CORTEX, CUTICLE, HAIR FOLLICLE, HAIR BULB, PAPILLA OF THE HAIR
HAIR GROWTH STAGES
ONE: GRWOTH STAGE
TWO: REGESSION STAGE
THREE: RESTING STAGE
LANUGO
COVERS HAIR AS BABY
TERMINAL HAIR
HEAVILY PIGMENTED HAIR
VELLUS HAIR
PEACH FUZZ
HAIR COLOUR
CAUSE BY MELINAN SYNTHESIZED BY MELANOCYTES
SKELETON SYSTEM FUNCTION
SUPPORT, PROTECTION, MOVEMENT, MINERALS IN HOMEOSTASIS, BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION, TRIGLYCERIDE STORAGE