Chapter 4 Flashcards
ABCD Rule
A-asymmetrical: both sides don’t match
B-border irregularity: not smooth but show indentations
C-color: shoes different colors
D-diameter:larger than 6mm
Alopecia
Hair thinning and some degree of baldness
Arrector pills muscles
Small bands of smooth muscle cells
Cold sores
Fluid- filled blisters caused by herpes simplex virus
Cutaneous membrane
Your skin
Dermis
Deep layer of the skin Made up of mostly dense connective tissue
Epidermis
Outer layers of the skin and epithelium
Excorine
Glands that have ducts though which their secretion are carried to the skin
Functions of the skin
Etc
Impetigo
Staphylococcus bacterial infection causing water filled lesions around the mouth and nose
Integumentary system
The skin for protection
Keratin
A tough insoluble protection Upper most skin in full of keratin
Malignant melanoma
Cancer if melanocytes
Melanin
Skin color
Psoriasis
Overproduction of skin cells causing dry silvery scales