Lec 5: Integumentary System

Question 1

Two major glands of skin

Answer 1

Sebaceous glands
Sweat glands

Question 2

Simplek branched acinar glands, which produces sebum

Answer 2

Sebaceous glands

Question 3

An oily white substance rich in lipids, that lubricates hair and skin to prevent drying

Answer 3

Sebum

Question 4

Two kinds of sweat glands glnds

Answer 4

Eccrine and Apocrine

Question 5

All over the body and release sweat by merocrine secretion, open into sweat pores, found in palms, soles and forehead

Answer 5

Eccrine glands

Question 6

Open into hair follicle, only found in armpits and genitalia, produce thick secretion rich in organic substance (odorless), become active in puberty

Answer 6

Apocrine glands

Question 7

Thin plate, consisting layers of dead stratum corneum cells that contain a very hard type of keratin

Answer 7

Nail

Question 8

Visible part of nail

Answer 8

Nail body

Question 9

Part of nail covered by the skin

Answer 9

Nail root

Question 10

Is stratum corneum that extends onto nail body

Answer 10

Cuticle/eponychium

Question 11

Produces the nail

Answer 11

Nail matrix

Question 12

Contributes to nail formation

Answer 12

Nail bed

Question 13

Can be seen to nail body, Whitish, crescent shaped

Answer 13

Lunula