Chapter 5 Flashcards
(14 cards)
the single most important risk for skin cancer is
overexposure to uv radiation
the following cutaneous receptors is specialized for the reception of touch or light
meissners corpuslces/ tactile cells
the following is a skin sensory receptor for touch
tactile corpuscles
the reason the hypodermis acts as a shock absorber is that
the major part of its makeup is adipose which serves as an effective shock absorber
the dermis has two major layers. which layer consitutes 80% of the dermis and is responsible for the tension lines in the skin
reticular layer
what are the most imporant factors of influencing hair growth
nutrition and hormones
sudoriferous (sweat) glands are categorized as two distinct types. they are
eccrine and apocrine
the composition of the secretions of the eccrine gland is
99% water, sodium chloride, trace amount of wastes and vitamin c
burns are devastating and debilitating because of loss of fluids and electrolytes from the body . how do physicians estimate the extent of a burn damage associated with such dangerous fluid loss
using the rule of nines
what may indicate embarrassment, fever, hypertension, inflammation, or allergy
Erythema
may indicate fear, anger, anemia, low blood pressure
pallor
usually indicates a liver disorder
jaundice
appearance of permanent tan; bronzing
addison’s disease
a bluish color in light-skinned individual
cyanosis
