Integumentary Flashcards
Outermost layer
epidermis
Inner layer
dermis
Subcutaneous; not actually part of the skin
Hypodermis
Thick skin is commonly found in?
Palms, soles, and fingertips
5 layers of epidermis (from superficial to deep)
- Stratum Cornuem
- Stratum Licudum
- Stratum Granulosum
- Stratum Spinosum
- Stratum Basale
- few to 50 more rows of dead, flat keratin that contain mostly keratin
- no longer contain organelles
- cells continuously shed and replaced by cells from the deeper strata
Stratum Corneum
- Present only in skin of fingertips, palms, and sole
- consists of 4-6 rows of clear, flat, dead keratinocytes with large amounts of keratin
Stratum Lucidum
- 3 - 5 rows of flattened keratinocytes, in which organelles are beginning to degenerrate
- contains the protein KERATOHYALIN and LAMELLAR GRANULES
Stratum Granulosum
Which layer is the keratohyalin and Lamellar granules found?
Stratum Granulosum
Water-proofing glycolipids (slows water loss in epidermis)
Lamellar granules
- 8 - 10 rows of many sided keratinocytes with bundles of keratin intermediate filaments
- contains Langerhans cells
Stratum Spinosum
- Deepest layer, composed of single row of cuboidal or columnar keratinocytes that contain scattered tonofilaments
Stratum Basale
- stem cells undergo cell division to produce new keratinocytes
- melanocytes and tactile epithelial cells associated with tactile discs are scattered among keratinocytes
Stratum Basale
2 Layers of dermis (superficial to deep)
Papillary layer
Reticular layer
Small, nipple-shaped structure under epidermal layer, projects into the under surface of epidermis, Provides nourish to the epidermal layer and helps adhesion between epidermal and dermal layer
Dermal Papillae
Avascular or vascular: Epidermis
Avascular
Avascular or vascular: Dermis
Vascular
- superficial portion of the dermis
- consists of areolar connective tissue with thin collagen and five elastic fibers
- contains dermal ridges that house blood capillary, corpuscles of touch, free nerve ending
Papillary region
- deeper portion of dermis
- consist of dense connective tissue with thick collagen and course elastic fibers
- spaces between fibers contain adipose cells, hair follicles, nerves sebaceous and sudoriferous glands
Reticular region/layer
Other term for sudoriferous glands?
Sweat glands
Other term of sebaceous gland?
oil glands
Hair follicle surrounds the _____?
Hair root
- deep to the dermis, also known as subcutaneous layer
Hypodermis
- not actually part of the skin
- consists of areolar and adipose tissues
- fibers extend from dermis to anchor the skin to the subcutaneous layer
- attaches to the underlying fascia
Hypodermis
4 receptors of skin
- free nerve ending
- Meissner’s corpuscles
- Pacinian Corpuscles
- Hair follicle
- Papillary layer to epidermis
- found in the papillary
- Detects pain and extreme temperature
- needed to maintain homeostasis
Free nerve ending
- “Touch corpuscles”
- detects light touch and slow vibration
Meissner’s Corpuscles
- Detects pressure and fast frequency vibration
Pacinian Corpuscles
- Surrounds hair root
- extends from under the skin to epidermis to hypodermis
- detects light touch
Hair follicle
Skin appendages
- Hair shaft
- hair root
- hair bulb
- arrector pili muscles
- Eccrine sweat glands
- Sebaceous glands
- superficial part of the hair that protrudes above the skin
Hair shaft
- deep portion of the staff that penetrates to the dermis and sometimes hypodermis
Hair root
- onion-shape, bottom of the hair root
Hair bulb
Nipple-shaped protrusion on the hair bulb/root
Hair papilla
- Attached to the skin
- Sudoriferous gland
Arrector Pili Muscles
3 concentric layer of the hair
- Medulla
- cortex
- cuticle
Inner layer of hair; seen in thick-stranded hair
Medulla
Outer layer of the hair
Cortex
- or “Piloerector muscle”
- Smooth muscle responsible for goosebumps
Arrector Pili Muscle
- secretes oil or sebum
Sebaceous glands
2 types of sweat glands
Eccrine, apocrine
(sweat glands) more numerous, more abundant in palm, soles, forehead
eccrine sweat glands
(sweat glands) found in axillary, anal, and genital area
Apocrine sweat glands