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chapter 5 Flashcards

1
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Integumentary system functions

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Protection, waterproofing skin, mini excretory system, vitamin D, sensory receptors

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Layers of skin

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Epidermis
Dermis
Subcutaneous

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3
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Papillary layer

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Produce fingerprints

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Sebaceous glands

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Produce an oily product. Usually coupled with a hair follicle.

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5
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Sweat glands

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produce sweat. Regulates body heat

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Cyanosis

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Bluish color that occurs during heart failure and severe breathing disorders

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Erythema

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Redness. Indicates fever, inflammation, embarrassment, allergy

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Pallor

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Blanching, pale skin, emotional stress, anemia, low blood pressure

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Jaundice

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Yellow cast, sign of liver disorder or too much bile absorbed by the blood

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Hematomas

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Black and blue marks, bruises, sites were blood has escaped from a blood vessel and has clouded in the tissue spaces

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Sebum

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Oil, keeps the skin soft and moist

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12
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Acne

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Infection of the sebaceous gland

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13
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eccrine glands

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Produce sweat

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14
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Sweat

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Water + salts + urea + vitamin C

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Apocrine glands

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Located in axillary and genital region of body, contain fatty acids + proteins + sweat, begins functioning at puberty

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16
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Hair

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Made up of dead protein

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17
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Melanin

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Produces hair color

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18
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Basal cell carcinoma

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The most common skin cancer, the least malignant, the cells bulge up into the dermis layer, slowly growing

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Squamous cell carcinoma

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Grows rapidly, will attach itself to lymph nodes it’s not removed

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Malignant melanoma

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Cancer of melanocytes, attaches itself to lymph nodes and blood vessels grows rapidly

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Melanoma A

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Asymmetry

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Melanoma B

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Border irregularity

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Melanoma C

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Color change

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Melanoma D

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Diameter, spot is larger than 6 mm

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Melanoma E

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Elevation

26
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1st° burn

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Only epidermis layer burned

27
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2nd° burn

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Blisters that form on skin, burns down into dermis layer

28
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3rd° burn

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Destroys all three layers of skin, nerve endings are destroyed, regeneration is not possible so skin grafting is done

29
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Fat in the _ tissue layer beneath the dermis helps to insulate the body

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subcutaneous

30
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Radiation from the skin surface in evaporation of sweat are two ways in which the skin helps to get rid of body _.

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Heat

31
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The waterproofing protein found in the epidermal cells

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keratin

32
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A vitamin manufactured in the skin

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d

33
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A localized concentration of melanin

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Freckle

34
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Wrinkling of the skin is due to loss of the _ of the skin

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Elasticity

35
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A decubitus ulcer results when skin cells are deprived of _.

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Oxygen

36
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The externally observable part of the hair

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shaft

37
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A black head is an accumulation of oily material produced by _.

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Sebaceous glands

38
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The most numerous variety of perspiration gland

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eccrine

39
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Less numerous variety of perspiration gland

It’s secretion contains proteins and other substances that favor bacterial growth

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Apocrine

40
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Found everywhere on the body except the palms of the hands, soles of feet and lips, and consist of dead keratinized cells

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Hair\sebaceous glands

41
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Become more active at puberty

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apocrine

42
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Part of the heat liberating apparatus of the body

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eccrine

43
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Cold sore type

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Viral

44
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Cold sore symptoms

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oosing spots

45
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Cold sore treatment

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Cannot cure, relieve pain by medicine

46
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Psoriasis type

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Bacterial, genetic

47
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Psoriasis symptoms

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Silvery flaking patches of skin

48
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Psoriasis treatment

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Steroid creams, oral medications

49
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Ringworm type

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Fungal

50
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Ringworm symptoms

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Circle of itchy patch on skin

51
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ringWorm treatment

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Antifungal cream

52
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Dandruff type

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Bacterial, fungal

53
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Shingles type

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Viral

54
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Shingles symptoms

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Throbbing pain before an itchy rash

55
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Shingles treatment

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Antiviral medication

56
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Acne type

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Genetic, bacterial

57
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Athletes foot type

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Fungal

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