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1
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What are the 4 primary tissue types?

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  • Epithelium
  • Connective tissue]
  • Muscle
  • Nerve
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What are epidermal cells termed as?

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Keratinocytes

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3
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What is the function of the epidermis?

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Prevents water loss by evaporation

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What are the functions of the dermis?

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  • Reduces the risk of external injury
  • Maintains the epidermis by its blood flow
  • Permits body cooling
  • Immune surveillance
  • UV protection
  • Energy storage
  • Sensory information
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5
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What does the epidermis consist of?

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Epithelium which forms boundaries between internal and external compartments

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What does the dermis consist of?

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Connective tissue which give structural support

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7
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How can epithelial be described?

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Stratified squamous keratinising epithelium

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8
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What kind of origin does epidermis have?

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Ectodermal origin

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9
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What are the 4 types of epidermal cells?

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  • Keratinocytes
  • Melanocytes
  • Langerhans cells
  • Merkel cells
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Describe keratinocytes.

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  • Most frequent
  • Contain keratin
  • Hard and resistant to abrasion
  • Extrude lipids making it waterproof
  • Constantly dividing
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What is the function of melanocytes?

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Pigment formation and injection of melanin in the str. germinaticum

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What is the function of Langerhan cells?

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Immune surveillance

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13
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What is the function of Merkel cells?

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Touch receptors

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14
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What are the 5 layers of the epidermis from outside in?

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  • Stratum corneum
  • Stratum lucidum
  • Stratum granulosum
  • Stratum spinosum
  • Stratum basale
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Describe the stratum spinosum.

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  • Spinous layer
  • Cells shrink post mortem and desmosomes create spines
  • Little structural evidence of activity
  • Preparative layer for keratinisation
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Describe the stratum granulosum.

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  • Presence of granules defines the layer

- Granules of keratohylain

17
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What 2 layers can be difficult distinguish?

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Stratum corneum and Stratum lucidum

18
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Describe the stratum corneum.

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  • Conversion of keratohyalin to keratin
  • Lots of disulphide linkages give strength
  • No organelles
  • Desmosomes bind cells
  • Fortnightly turnover
19
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What is keratinisation?

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Organic process whereby keratin is deposited in cells and these become horny as in dead skin, nails and hair

20
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How does epidermal thickness vary?

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  • Palms and soles of feet are thick skin

- Abdominal skin is thin

21
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What are the 2 layers of the dermis?

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  • Papillary layer

- Reticular layer

22
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Describe the papillary layer

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  • Loose connective tissue
  • Cellular
  • Irregular interface with epidermis
  • Protective against pathogens
  • Contains blood vessels and nerve endings
23
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Describe the reticular layer.

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  • Dense irregular connective tissue
  • Collagen bundles in three planes
  • Elastic fibres
24
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How does keratin originate?

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Originates as lamellated granules in str. granulosum

25
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How is skin waterproofed?

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  • Keratin in cells waterproofs

- Intracellular spaces filled with lipid cement

26
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What is responsible for skin colour?

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  • Blood
  • Carotene
  • Melanin
27
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What does melanin do?

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Protects us against UV

28
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Describe hair in relation to skin.

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  • Mainly for vanity but has a practical use in skin repair

- Derived from the epithelial layer

29
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Describe the origin of hair follicles.

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  • From epidermis in utero
  • Down growth of epithelial cells
  • Invasion of know of blood vessels
  • Growth of hair
  • Continuity with layers of epidermis
30
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What does a hair follicle consist of?

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  • Hair and sheath
  • Arrector pili muscles
  • Sebaceous glands
31
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Describe arrector pili muscles?

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  • Attached to follicle root and base epidermis
  • Follicle at angle
  • Hair straightens when muscle contracts
32
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Describe sebaceous glands?

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  • Between follicle and arrector pili muscle
  • Secretes sebum
  • Function uncertain
33
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What skin glands are there?

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  • Sebaceous- hair follicles
  • Apocrine sweat glands (BO)
  • Eccrine sweat glands
34
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Describe eccrine sweat glands.

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  • Simple tubular glands
  • Located in the dermis
  • Coiled secretory portion
  • Coiled and straight duct in dermis
  • Spiral channel in epidermis
  • Watery secretion
  • Thermoregulatory
35
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What is involved in thermoregulation/

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  • Sweat glands
  • Blood vessels
  • Hair (but not in human)
36
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What sensory endings are there in skin?

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  • Meissener’s corpuscles: light touch in fingertips
  • Paccinian corpuscles: vibration and pressure
  • Pain receptors
  • Thermoreceptors

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