Week 3 Inegument Flashcards
Skin is only composed of
epidermis - outermost layer epithelial tissue
Dermis- sebacuois glands, hair follicles, nerves, arteries, veins, sweat glands
Sebaceous glands
secretes oil and are associated with hair follicles
suderiforous glands
secrete sweat, odor from sweat, open directly to surface of skin
arrector pili muscles
attach to each and every hair of skin
arrector pili muscle function
create goodbumps to trap air around us to warm or make look bigger to animal
vasculature lies in the
dermis which bring in nutrition and takes out waste
hypodermis
not part of skin, contains fat
Karotinizatoin
Cuboidal cells at basil layer divide frequently and get pushed up to surface. It has two weeks to live here and during this time in synthesizes to keratin which is major protein in skin hair and nails. once cells pushed upward cell gradually dies, cell becomes dead bag of protein keratin, cells are firmly anchored to each other and stay on the epidermis for additional 2 weeks so outer most later of skin is dead interlocked layers known as keratinicites