Skin Flashcards

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Type of hair

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Lanugo - foetus - thin, soft, replaced after birth
Vellus- replace lanugo soft, fine
Terminal - thick, dark, long produced by testosterone

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Mechanoreceptors

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End bulbs - Thermoreceptors

Free nerve endings - nociceptors - pain

Tactile disks - merkel cells (thick skin) - touch
                             Meissner cells (thin skin)

Meissner corpuscle - tapping and flicking

Pacinian corpuscle - pressure

Raffinis corpuscel - joint movements

Root hair plexus - vibrations

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3
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Nail

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Nail plate
Nail bed
Nail matrix
Surrounding grooves

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