Voabulary Quiz 4

Question 1

Smooth muscles attached to hairs; contraction pulls the hairs into a vertical position, resulting in “goose bumps”

Answer 1

Arrector Pili

Question 2

Characterized by or associated with a lack of blood vessels

Answer 2

Avascular

Question 3

An examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease

Answer 3

Biopsy

Question 4

Waxlike secretion produced by ceruminous glands in the external auditory meatus (ear canal). Also termed as earwax

Answer 4

Cerumen

Question 5

The main structural protein found in animal connective tissue, yielding gelatin when boiled

Answer 5

Collagen

Question 6

A layer of dense irregular connective tissue lying deep to the epidermis

Answer 6

Dermis

Question 7

An elastic, fibrous glycoprotein found in connective tissue

Answer 7

Elastin

Question 8

Any of the ridges of the epidermis of the palms and soles, where the sweatpores open. Also called skin ridge

Answer 8

Epidermal Ridges

Question 9

The superficial, thinner layer of skin, composed of keratinized stratified squamous epithelium

Answer 9

Epidermis

Question 10

The thin tissue forming the outer layer of a body’s surface and lining the alimentary canal and other hollow structures

Answer 10

Epithelium

Question 11

A large, flat cell that secretes most of the extracellular matrix of areolar and dense connective tissues

Answer 11

Fibroblast

Question 12

A small patch of light brown color on the skin, often becoming more pronounced through exposure to the sun

Answer 12

Freckles

Question 13

An amorphous gel-like substance surrounding the cells.

Also called extrafibrillar matrix

Answer 13

Ground Substance

Question 14

The innermost and thickest layer of the skin.

It is essentially composed of a type of cells specialised in accumulating and storing fats, known as adipocytes

Answer 14

Hypodermis

Question 15

Lines that can be extrapolated by connecting linear openings made when a round pin is driven into the skin of a cadaver, resulting from the principal axis of orientation of the subcutaneous connective tissue (collagen) fibers of the dermis; they vary in direction with the region of the body surface

Answer 15

Lines of Cleavage (Tension Lines)

Question 16

The material (or tissue) in animal or plant cells, in which more specialized structures are embedded, and a specific part of the mitochondrion that is the site of oxidation of organic molecules

Answer 16

Matrix

Question 17

The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams

Answer 17

Mole

Question 18

An exocrine gland in the dermis of the skin, almost always associated with a hair folicle, that secretes sebum.

Also called an oil gland

Answer 18

Sebaceous Gland

Question 19

A membrane that lines a body cavity that does not open to the exterior. The external layer of an organ formed by a serous membrane. The membrane that lines the pleural, pericardial, and peritoneal cavities.
Also called a serosa.

Answer 19

Serous Membrane

Question 20

Internal scarring due to overstretching of the skin in which collagen fibers and blood vessels in the dermis are damaged

Answer 20

Stretch Mark (Striae)

Question 21

An apocrine or eccrine exocrine gland in the dermis or subcutaneous layer that produces prespiration.

Also called a sweat gland

Answer 21

Sudoriferous Gland

Question 22

The thin layer of loose fatty connective tissue underlying the skin and binding it to the parts beneath

Answer 22

Superficial Fascia

Question 23

Of, relating to, affecting, or consisting of a vessel or vessels, especially those that carry blood

Answer 23

Vascular