chapter 5 Flashcards

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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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6
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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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21
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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
Elevation
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1st° burn
Only epidermis layer burned
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2nd° burn
Blisters that form on skin, burns down into dermis layer
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3rd° burn
Destroys all three layers of skin, nerve endings are destroyed, regeneration is not possible so skin grafting is done
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Fat in the _ tissue layer beneath the dermis helps to insulate the body
subcutaneous
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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 _.
Heat
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The waterproofing protein found in the epidermal cells
keratin
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A vitamin manufactured in the skin
d
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A localized concentration of melanin
Freckle
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Wrinkling of the skin is due to loss of the _ of the skin
Elasticity
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A decubitus ulcer results when skin cells are deprived of _.
Oxygen
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The externally observable part of the hair
shaft
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A black head is an accumulation of oily material produced by _.
Sebaceous glands
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The most numerous variety of perspiration gland
eccrine
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Less numerous variety of perspiration gland It’s secretion contains proteins and other substances that favor bacterial growth
Apocrine
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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
Hair\sebaceous glands
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Become more active at puberty
apocrine
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Part of the heat liberating apparatus of the body
eccrine
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Cold sore type
Viral
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Cold sore symptoms
oosing spots
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Cold sore treatment
Cannot cure, relieve pain by medicine
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Psoriasis type
Bacterial, genetic
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Psoriasis symptoms
Silvery flaking patches of skin
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Psoriasis treatment
Steroid creams, oral medications
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Ringworm type
Fungal
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Ringworm symptoms
Circle of itchy patch on skin
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ringWorm treatment
Antifungal cream
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Dandruff type
Bacterial, fungal
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Shingles type
Viral
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Shingles symptoms
Throbbing pain before an itchy rash
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Shingles treatment
Antiviral medication
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Acne type
Genetic, bacterial
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Athletes foot type
Fungal