Hair & Scalp

Question 1

Folliculitis?

Answer 1

Infection of the hair follicles frequently caused bu staphylococcus or other bacteria.

Question 2

What is thinkness or diameter of an individual hait strand?

Answer 2

Hair Texture

Question 3

Furuncle

Answer 3

Technical term for a boil, an acute, localized bacterial infection of the hair follicle that produces constant pain.

Question 4

Your body produces 11 to 20 amino acids that make up hair, but your daily diet should make up for the remaining….. how many essential amino acids?

Answer 4

9

Question 5

The lowest part of the hair stand?

Answer 5

Hair bulb

Question 6

Small, cone shaped elevation located at the base of the hair follicle that fits into the hair bulb

Answer 6

dermal papilla

Question 7

Tube like depression in the skin that contains hair root

Answer 7

Hair follicle

Question 8

Sebaceous gands?

Answer 8

Oil glands connected to the hair follicles

Question 9

percentage of Carbon in normal hair?

Answer 9

51%

Question 10

Percentage of oxygen in normal hair?

Answer 10

21%

Question 11

Tiny grains of pigment in the cortex that give natural color to the hair?

Answer 11

Melanin

Question 12

Eumelanin?

Answer 12

Provides natural dark brown & black color to the hair

Question 13

Pheomelanin

Answer 13

Lighter pigment that provides natural color raning from red and ginger to yellow & blond tones.

Question 14

Vellus hair?

Answer 14

Short fine unpigmented, downy hair

Question 15

Where is vellus hair found?

Answer 15

Most common in infants but can be presented in adukts on the eyelids

Question 16

Terminal hair

Answer 16

Long coarse pigmented hair found on the scalp, legs, arms and bodies of males and femalesm

Question 17

Canities is?

Answer 17

Technical name for gray hair

Question 18

Monilethrix?

Answer 18

Tech term for beaded hair.

Question 19

Trichorrhexis nodosa?

Answer 19

Knotted hair

Question 20

Trichorrhexis nodsa

Answer 20

Tech term for knotted hair.

Question 21

Monilethrix?

Answer 21

Tech term for beaded hair

Question 22

3 layers of the hair?

Answer 22

Hair cuticle
Cortex
Medulla