Skin,Hair,Nails Flashcards
What system is the skin in?
Neurosensory
What is the body’s largest organ?
The skin
What feed the hair follicle?
Blood vessels
What is hair made of?
Keratin
What layer is hair made in?
Dermal layer
As you lose _______ you lose hair color.
Melanocytes
Where are the hair melanocytes located?
In the bulb
Fine, arm hair
Vellus hair
Course hair in the pubic, chest, eyelashes
Terminal hair
Are formed when epidermal cells are converted into hard plates of keratin
Nails
Lipid, oily liquid
Sebum
Located everywhere except for palms and feet
Sebaceous Glands
What secretes sebum?
Sebaceous glands
Keeps hair and skin from drying out
Sebum
What are the two sweat glands
Eccrine and apocrine
Secretes sweat, salt water, sodium chloride
Eccrine gland
Secretes a thick, milky substance in the axilary, pubic, naval areas
Apocrine
A baby doesn’t develop the ______ gland until they are 1-2 months old
Eccrine
What is a baby unable to do until 1-2 months?
Prevent fluid loss and function in temperature regulation.
Tiny white apples-sebaceous secrections on an infants head
Milia (cradle cap)
Vessels breaking underneath skin in elderly
Cecile purpura
Pale
Pallor
Blue
Cyanosis
Red
Erythema
Yellow
Jaundice
Significant hair loss
Allopecia
Bruises on baby child/diaper rash
Abuse
Staph wound on face
Impetigo
Lice
Pediculosis
What percentage of teens have acne?
70
Iodine solution that cleans wounds
Beta dine
Left over virus from varicella (chicken pox)
Shingles/Herpes Zoster
What do we do to the skin?
Inspect and Palpate
Skin turgid should recoil in
Less than 2 seconds
Anemic people are often
Pallor
Intense redness
Erythema
Yellow scleras
Jaundice
Where should you check dark skinned people?
Mouth, palms
One sided pitting
Injury
Two sided pitting
Something central is going on
What do we do to the nails?
Inspect and palpate
What do we check with the nails?
Shape and contour Consistency (firmness) Color Capillary refill Nail angle
