Integument Components and Function Flashcards
What are the three components of the Integument?
- Skin
- Hypodermis
- Acessory Glands
What are the Layers of the Skin?
Epidermis, Dermis, and Cutaneous Epithelium
What are the Components of the Hypodermis?
Areolar connective tissue and fat
What are the Acessory Organs?
Glands and Protective Apparatus
What are the three Glands in the Integument?
- Sweat Glands
- Sebaceous Glands
- Mammary Glands
What are the Protective Apparatus?
Hair, feathers, claws, hooves, beak, scales, horns, and antlers
What are the six functions of the skin?
- Thermo regulation
- Vitamin D production
- Communication
- Protection
- Sensation
- Secretion
What things does the skin protect from?
-Physical Trauma
-Physical and Chemical Invasion
- Maintains hydration (loss and excess)
-Protects from Radiation (pigmentation)
Skin serves as the External Monitor for the Function of Sensation. Nerve Endings in the skin pick up which four types of Sensation?
1.Temperature
2. Pressure
3. Touch
4. Nociceptors
What three substances are secreted through Acessory Organs?
- Sweat
- Sebum
- Pheremones
How does the skin provide Thermoregulation?
Sweat, hair, and surface area
What is the function of the Subcutis?
Attachment and Storage (fat)
What is another word for Subcutis?
Hypodermis
The external surface of the skin is dead as a result of what process that the epithelium undergoes?
Keratinization
Skin adjoins mucus membranes in what four locations?
- Nares
- Anus
- Mouth
- Eyes
