Skin

Question 1

What types of tissue are found in the skin?

Answer 1

Connective, epithelial, nervous, muscle.

Question 2

What type of epithelial tissue is found in the epidermis?

Answer 2

Stratified squamous epithelium.

Question 3

What type of tissue is the dermis composed of and what are the two layers?

Answer 3

Connective tissue, divide into the upper papillary layer (areolar) and the lower reticular layer (dense irregular).

Question 3

What is the hypodermis?

Answer 3

The fatty adipose tissue layer that lays beneath the reticular layer of the dermis. It connects the skin to the underlying layer of muscle and acts as insulation.

Question 4

What accessory structures are found solely in thin skin?

Answer 4

Hair follicles, hair roots and shafts, sebaceous (oil) glands, and arrector pili muscles.

Question 5

What structures are found in both thin and thick skin?

Answer 5

Sweat glands and specialized sensory receptors for touch and pressure (Meissner’s corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles)

Question 6

What are the 4 layers of thin skin?

Answer 6

Stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum corneum.

Question 7

What are the 5 layers of thick skin?

Answer 7

Stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratus lucidum, stratus corneum.