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Skin Flashcards

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Functions of skin

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Barrier, regulation i.e. temp, immunity, enables movement and growth, excretion and endocrine function

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2
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Layers of skin

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Epidermis –> dermis –> hypodermis –> blood vessels

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What is it that makes skin thick?

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Glabrous (non-hairy) - thin skin is hairy and has hair follicles

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4
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What layer of epidermis is not present in thin skin?

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Stratum lucidum

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5
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Where is thick skin found?

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Places of wear + tear: soles of feet, palms, back and buttocks

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6
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What are the layers of epidermis?

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Bad (Stratum Basale), School (Stratum Spinosum), Girls (Stratum Granulosum), Like (Stratum Lucidum), Cocaine (Stratum Corneum)

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Which layer is deepest?

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Stratum Basale

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Which layer has new cells being made?

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Stratum Basale. New cells being made which migrate through other layers of skin.

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What are the 3 types of non-epithelial cell in the epidermis?

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  1. Melanocytes - protect from sunlight
  2. Langerhans cells - recognise antigens, role in immunity
  3. Merkel cells - mechanoreceptors for touch
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10
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Which layer does Basal Cell Carcinoma effect?

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Stratum basale

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Which layer does Squamous Cell Carcinoma effect?

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Stratum corneum

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Which layer does Malignant Melanoma effect?

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Stratum granulosum. Melanocytes.

Least common carcinoma and most dangerous

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13
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What are warts?

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Small lumps on hand/feet caused by HPV. Cause an XS amount of Keratin to be produced in epidermis.

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14
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How are blisters caused?

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Forms between stratum basal and spinosum, or between epidermis and dermis. Moving over layers need frictional component which is not present in new shoes.

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15
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What are hair follicles?

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Composed mainly of Keratin - central medulla surrounded by cortex with a surface cuticle. Hair bulb and papilla found together. Function = thermoregulation

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16
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What is a sebaceous gland?

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Associated with hair follicles. Secrete lipids called sebum = waterproofing. Independent of hair follicles are areolae, vulva and eyelid where they open directly to skin or mucosal surface, Link to errecter pilli muscles. Look like bubble paintings + holey.

17
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What are eccrine sweat glands?

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Widespread throughout skin at junction between dermis and subcutis –> SWEAT. Look like hula hoops with spots on them.

18
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What are apocrine glands?

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Axillary + groin areas. Located dermis/subcutis. Scent production for territory marking and sexual attraction. Secrete into adj. hair follicles via duct.

19
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What components are absent from thick skin?

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Sebaceous glands

20
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What components are absent from thin skin?

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Dermal papillae

21
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What components are involved in acne?

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Sebaceous glands + hair follicles

22
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Arrector pilli muscles + their link to sympathetic nervous supply…?

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Arterioles are supplied by andronergic sympathetic fibres, which mediate vasoconstriction. Also supply myoepithelial cells + eccrine sweat glands.

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What are the two layers of the dermis?

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  1. Papillary dermis - fine interlacing collagen fibres and elastin. arterioles, capillary loops, venules, lympathics and Moistener’s corpuscles.
  2. Reticular dermis - large collagen + elastin bundles, blood vessels and nerves, skin appendages, lymphocytes, mast cells + macrophages (present but scarce)
24
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What else does dermis contain?

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Blood + nerve supply

25
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What outgrowths are in epidermis?

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Retes ridges, project downwards

26
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What outgrowths are in dermis?

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Dermal papillae

27
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How do we get our individual fingerprint?

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Retes ridge + dermal papillae

28
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1 degree burn?

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Pain + reddening of epidermis

29
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2 degree burn?

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Epidermis + dermis - pain, blistering, sore and red

30
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3 degree burn?

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Go through dermis and affect deeper tissue. Results in white or black charred skin which may be numb

31
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What is a dermatome?

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Localised area of skin that has sensation from one specific nerve

32
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Efferent nervous system….?

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Non-myelinated from sympathetic ANS. Blood vessels of skin + skin appendages - arrecter pills + eccrine sweat glands.

33
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Types of afferent nervous system?

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  1. Free Nerve Endings
    a) Merkel-cell neurite complexes
  2. Encapsulated endings
    a) Meissener’s corpuscles
    b) Pacinian corpuscles
    c) Ruffini corpuscles
34
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Free nerve endings

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Nocioreceptors (pain), thermoreceptors (temp)
Merkel cell-neurite complex (mechanoreceptors)
- Dermal epidermal junction
- Slow speed of adaption
- Detect pressure

35
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Meissener’s Corpuscles

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  • Papillary dermis
  • Rapid acting mechanoreceptors
  • Detect touch + sensation
36
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Pacinian Corpuscles

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  • Subcutis
  • Rapid acting
  • Detect deep pressure + vibration
37
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Ruffini endings

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  • Cutaneous tissue
  • Slow acting
  • Detect stretching + shearing

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