The Integumentary System Flashcards
- Which of the following is a example of the chemical protection the skin provides?
Low pH secretions
- Provides nourishment for the most superficial layer?
Dermis
- These cells make up the majority of the epidermis. The ones on the surface of our skin are dead and we shed many of them everyday.
Kerintonocytes
- A child is playing on the playground barefoot when she steps on a wooden part of the playset and gets a splinter in the heel of her foot. Her father removes the splinter, which had penetrated three layers of her epidermis. Which epidermal layers did the splinter go through?
Stratum corneum, stratum lucidum (since it is the foot and there is thick skin there), and stratum granulosum
- Based on their location, which epidermal layer are the projections from the surface of the dermis into the epidermis closest too?
Stratum básale
- Where are the most new cells?
Stratum Básale
- What is not a function of the skin
the production of red blood cells
On the skin diagram #16 is pointing to
all of these
What number represents the oldest skin cells?
5
Made of epithelial tissue
Epidermis
If you were to get a tatto, which sensory receptor in your skin would allow you to sense the pain form the needle?
Free nerve ending
What number represent the newest skin cells?
1
The projections from the surface of the dermis into the epidermis also contain ___ that allow us to feel pain.
nerve endings
The projections from the surface of the dermis into the epidermis contain ________ that provide nourishment for the epidermis
Capillary loops
The tough and water-resistant layer of the skin where cells are filled with keratin.
Stratum granulosum
