Dermis Flashcards

Integumentary System

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Dermis

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Contains many fibers of collagen together with various kinds of cells
Strong and flexible

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Sebaceous glands

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Oil glands that are generally connected to hair follicles
Their secretion is an oily substance called sebum by holocrine secretion
Oils and lubricates

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Sweat glands

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Performs excretory functions by delivering metabolic waste products to skin surface for removal and it regulates body temperature
500cc to 12 liters/day (mostly water)

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Papillary

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Areolar connective tissues; has dermal papillae (lies on top of dermal ridges)
One of the layers of the dermis

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5
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Reticular

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Reticulum (network) of collagen and reticular fibers
The second layer of the dermis

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Fingerprints, palm prints, foot prints

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Dermal papillae lie atop dermal ridges
Elevate the overlying epidermis into epidermis ridges
Sweat films
Genetically determined

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7
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Flexion creases

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Keep dermis from constant folding

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Fibers

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Collagen, electric fibers (stretch-recoil), striae (stretch marks), and tension lines (lines of cleavage)

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9
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Types of sweat glands
(most numerous, true sweat, opens through pores)

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Eccrine or Merocrine, apocrine, modified glands

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Apocrine

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Axillary, anal and genital areas only
Ducts open into hair follicles
Organic molecules in it decompose with time - odor

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Ceruminous (modified apocrine gland)

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Secrete earwax

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Mammary (modified apocrine gland)

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Secretes milk

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13
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Eccrine or Merocrine

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Most numerous
True sweat: 99% water, some salts, traces of waste
Open through pores

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