Integumentary system Part 1 Flashcards
SKIN IS DIVIDED INTO 3 LAYERS. name those layers.
- Epidermis
- Dermis
- Hypodermis/ Subcutic
The largest organ in the human body
Skin
Skin is divided into two categories based on the thickness of the epidermis
Name those two categories
Thin and Thick skin
What does the thick skin compromised of?
Thicker keratin layer
Where do you find the thick skin and thin skin
Thick: Soles of the feet
Palms of the hands
Thin: covers the rest of the body
Name the layers of the thin and thick skin
Thick- stratum basal
Stratum spinosum
Stratum granulosum
Stratum lucidum
Stratum corneum
Thin- all of the above layers except Stratum lucidum
Between thick and thin skin, which one has hair follicles which one does not have Hair follicles
- Thin skin has hair follicles
- Thick skin does not have hair follicles
Functions of the skin
- Protection
- Moisture control
- Metabolic
- Immunological
- Themoregulation
- Sensory
Characteristics of Epidermis
- High proliferative stratified squamous epithelial layer
- Produces non-living layer of keratin
- Non- epithelial cells (langerhans cells, Melanocytes and Merkel cells)
Characteristics of Dermis
Fibrous and fribroadipose tissue layer that supports epidermis
Consists of blood vessels nerve and sensory receptors
.Responsible for tone and texture of skin
Connective tissue layer
Has 2 layers
Hypodermic characteristics
Contain adipose tissue with supporting fibrous bands called septa
Contain large vessels
Stratum Basale
1. Name the cells that make Stratum basala
2. Name the junction and the role
3. Stratum basale is highly mitotic and contains which cells, and what does this cells do
4. Specialized cells and the function
5. The basal cells form
6. Superficial progenitor basal cells mature
- Cuboidal or columnar cells which rest on the basement membrane
- Dermo-epidermal junction that binds the epidermis to the dermis
- Progenitor cells that gives rise to the other layers of the epidermis
- Melanocytes which is responsible for melanin production
- The basal cells form an irregular basal surface and have an indented cell membrane with hemidesmosomes
- Matures into cells of the stratum spinosum
Stratum spinosum
1. Layers of spinosum
2. Explain the organelles
3. Other name?
4. Specialized cells
5. Keratinocytes matures into?
- Multiple layers of polyhedral shaped keratinocytes
- Round shaped nuclei, prominent nucleoli and cytoplasm
- Prickle cell layer
- Keratinocytes which is actively synthesize keratin
- Matures stratum granulousm
Stratum granulosum
1. Characteristics of cells
2. This cells undergoes which processes, and explain
- 1-5 layers of flattened cells
- Keratinization, filling cytoplasm with basophilic keratohyaline granules
Stratum lucidum
1. Characteristics
Found only in the thick skin
Very thin single layer of translucent flattened cells which lack nuclei and organelles and are packed with mostly keratin filaments
Stratum corneum
1. Explain the cells that make up stratum corneum
2. Name the basket weave pattern that the cells form
3. This cells are continuously shed at the?
4. Characteristics of this cells based on water.
- The cells progress toward the surface lose their nuclei and cytoplasm and become keratinised squamous epithelial cells which then comprises the surface coating of the stratum corneum
- Orthokeratosis
- Epidermal surface
- Are water repellent since they are coated with lipid containing anti wetting agents that were synthesized during maturation in the granular layer.
The intra-epidermal antigen presenting cells (Histocytes)
Langerhans cells
Where do we find langerhans cells
Presents in all layers of epidermis but easily noticed in stratum spinosum