Skin,Hair,Nails

Question 1

What system is the skin in?

Answer 1

Neurosensory

Question 2

What is the body’s largest organ?

Answer 2

The skin

Question 3

What feed the hair follicle?

Answer 3

Blood vessels

Question 4

What is hair made of?

Answer 4

Keratin

Question 5

What layer is hair made in?

Answer 5

Dermal layer

Question 6

As you lose _______ you lose hair color.

Answer 6

Melanocytes

Question 7

Where are the hair melanocytes located?

Answer 7

In the bulb

Question 8

Fine, arm hair

Answer 8

Vellus hair

Question 9

Course hair in the pubic, chest, eyelashes

Answer 9

Terminal hair

Question 10

Are formed when epidermal cells are converted into hard plates of keratin

Answer 10

Nails

Question 11

Lipid, oily liquid

Answer 11

Sebum

Question 12

Located everywhere except for palms and feet

Answer 12

Sebaceous Glands

Question 13

What secretes sebum?

Answer 13

Sebaceous glands

Question 14

Keeps hair and skin from drying out

Answer 14

Sebum

Question 15

What are the two sweat glands

Answer 15

Eccrine and apocrine

Question 16

Secretes sweat, salt water, sodium chloride

Answer 16

Eccrine gland

Question 17

Secretes a thick, milky substance in the axilary, pubic, naval areas

Answer 17

Apocrine

Question 18

A baby doesn’t develop the ______ gland until they are 1-2 months old

Answer 18

Eccrine

Question 19

What is a baby unable to do until 1-2 months?

Answer 19

Prevent fluid loss and function in temperature regulation.

Question 20

Tiny white apples-sebaceous secrections on an infants head

Answer 20

Milia (cradle cap)

Question 21

Vessels breaking underneath skin in elderly

Answer 21

Cecile purpura

Question 22

Pale

Answer 22

Pallor

Question 23

Blue

Answer 23

Cyanosis

Question 24

Red

Answer 24

Erythema

Question 25

Yellow

Answer 25

Jaundice

Question 26

Significant hair loss

Answer 26

Allopecia

Question 27

Bruises on baby child/diaper rash

Answer 27

Abuse

Question 28

Staph wound on face

Answer 28

Impetigo

Question 29

Lice

Answer 29

Pediculosis

Question 30

What percentage of teens have acne?

Answer 30

70

Question 31

Iodine solution that cleans wounds

Answer 31

Beta dine

Question 32

Left over virus from varicella (chicken pox)

Answer 32

Shingles/Herpes Zoster

Question 33

What do we do to the skin?

Answer 33

Inspect and Palpate

Question 34

Skin turgid should recoil in

Answer 34

Less than 2 seconds

Question 35

Anemic people are often

Answer 35

Pallor

Question 36

Intense redness

Answer 36

Erythema

Question 37

Yellow scleras

Answer 37

Jaundice

Question 38

Where should you check dark skinned people?

Answer 38

Mouth, palms

Question 39

One sided pitting

Answer 39

Injury

Question 40

Two sided pitting

Answer 40

Something central is going on

Question 41

What do we do to the nails?

Answer 41

Inspect and palpate

Question 42

What do we check with the nails?

Answer 42

Shape and contour
Consistency (firmness)
Color
Capillary refill
Nail angle