Midterm Skin

Question 1

What is skin?

Answer 1

porous and protective! It seperates me/not me, 64,000 sensory receptors! skin=layers, whole skin replaced every 27 days.

Question 2

What does skin do? 1) to do with liquids

Answer 2

It’s waterproof. puncture-resistant protective covering guarding against foreign invasion and fluid loss

Question 3

What does skin do? 2) hot/cold environment

Answer 3

Temperature regulator. extra capillaries either constrict to send blood in or gorge to pull blood out and sweat glands cool through evaporation.

Question 4

What does skin do? 3) to do with sweat and waste

Answer 4

sweat glands also excrete waste

Question 5

What does skin do? 4) to do with which system in the body

Answer 5

part of immune system through lymph glands/vessels

Question 6

What does skin do 5) with fat

Answer 6

metabolic organ involved in the metabolism, storage, and catabolism of fat

Question 7

What does skin do 6) through sweat? (besides temp and waste)

Answer 7

regulates salt/water levels through sweat

Question 8

What does skin do 7) stomach

Answer 8

a reservior of food and water

Question 9

What does skin do 8) (sun)

Answer 9

a sote pf Vitamin D synthesis

Question 10

What does skin do 9) veins

Answer 10

regulator of blood pressure

Question 11

What does skin do? 10) what does my face create?

Answer 11

source of moisture and lubrication

Question 12

What does skin do? 11) (feeling)

Answer 12

a sensory organ

Question 13

What does skin do? 12) the one that makes no sense, haha get it? Cause it’s the wrong sense

Answer 13

2 way passage of gasses

Question 14

Touch 1 (pain receptors)

Answer 14

pain receptors, everywhere except the brain

Question 15

Touch 2 (Free nerve endings)

Answer 15

light touch, everywhere

Question 16

Touch 3 (Meissner’s corpuscles)

Answer 16

acutely sensitive to light touch but numb out when stimulus does not change, lips/fingers

Question 17

Touch 4 (Expanded tip tactile receptors)

Answer 17

transmit long continuous signals so as to pinpoint an object that is stationary in the skin.

Question 18

touch 5 ( Hair end organs

Answer 18

Register movement of hair

Question 19

Touch 6 (Ruffini’s end organs)

Answer 19

deep in the skin pressure, in joint capsules letting us know where our limbs are.

Question 20

Touch 7 (Pacinian corpuscle)

Answer 20

fast light touch, movement or vibration, in skin and deeper tissues.

Question 21

We do we need touch as humans?

Answer 21

Touch affects our personality and cultures. touch helps us grow, develop, and mature throughout our lives. Touch is essential food. babies die without it.

Question 22

Skin is:

Answer 22

surface of the brain

Question 23

endoderm

Answer 23

internal organs

Question 24

mesoderm

Answer 24

connective tissues, bones, skeletal muscles

Question 25

ectoderm

Answer 25

skin and nervous system information travels back and forth from the periphery to the central nervous system, touch helps the nervous system to grow.