Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is the integumentary system composed of?
- Skin
- Hair
- Oil
- Sweat glands
- Nails
- Sensory receptors
What is the skin also known as?
Cutaneous membrane
What are the two main parts of the skin?
- Epidermis
- Dermis
Subcutaneous layer
Deep to the dermis, but not part of the skin. Consists of Areolar and adipose tissue. Contains large blood vessels that supply the skin, and lamellated corpuscles that are sensitive to pressure
What is the epidermis is composed of?
Stratified squamous epithelium
1. Keratinocytes
2. Melanocytes
3. Intraepidermal macrophages
4. Tactile epithelial
90% of epidermal cells are what type?
Keratinocytes
Keratinocytes are arranged in four or five layers and produce what protein?
Keratin
Lamellar granules produced by the keratinocytes sites do what?
Release a water repellent sealant that decreases water entry and loss and inhibits the entry of foreign materials
Melanocytes
8% of the epidermal cells, produce pigment melanin
Melanin
Yellow-red or brown-black pigment that contributes to skin colour and absorbs damaging UV light.
Intraepidermal macrophages or langerhans cells
Arise from Redbone Marrow and migrate to the epidermis. participate in immune responses by helping other cells of the immune system recognizes and invading microbes and destroy it there easily damaged by UV light
Tactile epithelial cells or Merkel cells
Located in the deepest layer of the epidermis they detect touch sensations
Tactile disc or merkel disc
Neuron or nerve cell
What are the four layers of thin skin?
- Stratum basalt
- Stratum spinosum
- Stratum granulosum
- Thin stratum corneum
Where is thick skin located?
Fingertips
Palms
Soles
Where there is increased exposure to friction
Layers of thick skin?
Stratum basale
Stratum spinosum
Stratum granulosum
Stratum lucidum
Thick stratum corneum
Stratum basale
Deepest layer, single row of cuboidal or columnar keratinocytes
Which layer of skin has stem cells that undergo cell division?
Stratum basale
Stratum spinosum
Superficial to the stratum basale. 8 to 10 layers of keratinocytes. Produce by stem cells in the basal layer.
Stratum granulosum
Middle of epidermis. Undergoes apoptosis as it moves closer to surface.
Stratum lucidum
Only in thick skin consists of 4 to 6 layers of flattened clear dead keratinocytes that contain large amounts of keratin and thickened plasma membranes
Stratum corneum
25 to 30 layers of flatten dead keratinocytes very thin flat contain no nucleus or internal organelles
How is a callus formed?
Constant exposure of skin to friction stimulates increase cell production in Carrollton production that result in a callus
What is the process of keratinization?
Newly formed cells in the stratum basil or slowly pushed to the surface as the cells move from one epidermal layer to the next day accumulate more keratin
Epidermal growth factor EGF
Hormones that play a rule in the mechanism that regulate cell growth
Dermis
Deeper part of the skin composed of dense irregular connective tissue containing collagen and elastic fibres. has great tensile strength
has the ability to stretch and recoil easily
predominant cells in this layer are fibroblast, macrophages, and a few Adipocytes
blood vessels, nerves, glands, and hair follicles are embedded in the dermal layer
What are the dermis regions?
- Papillary region
- Reticular region
Papillary region
Contains thin collagen in fine elastic fibres surface area is greatly increase by dermal papillae
Dermal papillae
Nipple shaped structures that project into the undersurface of the epidermis that contain capillary loops and some contain corpuscles of touch and some contain free nerve endings
Corpuscles of touch or Messner corpuscles
Nerve endings that are sensitive to touch
What dendrites lack any apparent structural specialization?
Free nerve endings
Reticular region
Deeper portion of dermis consists of dense irregular connective tissue with bundles of thick collagen and some coarse elastic fibres spaces between fibres contain some adipose cells hair follicles nerves sebaceous glands and sudoriferous glands