The Integumentary System Part 2 (7)

Question 1

What are CUTANEOUS SENSORY RECEPTORS?

Answer 1

They are parts of your nervous system found in your skin that help you sense the outside world.

Question 2

Cutaneous sensory receptors are also known as WHAT?

Answer 2

Corpuscles!

Question 3

What are the three main types of corpuscles in your skin?

Answer 3

1. TACTILE corpuscles (feel surface sensations)
2. LAMELLAR corpuscles (feel pressure)
3. HAIR FOLLICLES (feel things that move your hairs breezes)

Question 4

What fluid does your skin retain 5% of?

Answer 4

Blood!

Question 5

What is VASCOCONSTRICTION?

Answer 5

When your skin’s blood vessels constrict on a cold day to send the blood deeper inside your body and keep your internal organs warm enough.

Question 6

What is VASOLIDATION?

Answer 6

When your skin’s blood vessels relax again after things warm up, allowing more blood back into your skin again.

Question 7

True or false: the color of your skin can tell you if something in your body is out of balance.

Answer 7

True!

Question 8

What is another name for blue skin, and what could it indicate?

Answer 8

CYANOSIS

Could indicate heart failure, poor circulation, or severe respiratory issues BECAUSE oxygen-poor blood is dark and looks blue through the skin.

Question 9

What is another name for yellow skin, and what could it indicate?

Answer 9

JAUNDICE

Could indicate a liver disorder, BECAUSE the yellow color comes from bile building up in the skin and the liver is what regulates bile.

Question 10

What is another name for red skin, and what could it indicate?

Answer 10

ERYTHEMA

Could indicate a fever, inflammation, or allergy BECAUSE these conditions cause blood vessels in the skin to expand and let in more blood.

Question 11

True or false: the easiest place to check for discoloration is actually fingernail beds or mucous membranes (like inside the mouth).

Answer 11

TRUE! Because these places don’t have melanin, which could make it harder to see discoloration.

Question 12

What organ makes Vitamin D?

Answer 12

Your skin

Question 13

What is the difference between the shaft and the root of a hair?

Answer 13

The shaft is the main part, where the cells are already dead and keratinized (like your epidermis cells!).

The root is the part inside the follicle where keratinization is still happening.

Question 14

What is another word for sweat glands?

Answer 14

SUDORIFEROUS glands

Question 15

What are the two types of SUDORIFEROUS glands?

Answer 15

1. Eccrine (found in palms, forehead, soles of feet, etc.)

2. Apocrine glands (found in armpits and groin, “stinky”)

Question 16

Besides the “stinky sweaty” kind, what are two other types of APOCRINE glands?

Answer 16

1. Mammary glands (secrete milk)

2. Ceruminous glands (secrete earwax)

Question 17

What is another word for oil glands?

Answer 17

SEBACEOUS glands (secrete oils into your hair follicles to the surface of your skin)

Question 18

What is another word for the oil your sebaceous glands produce?

Answer 18

SEBUM