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Where are eccrine glands found?

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All over the body

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What do eccrine glands produce? And what does it consist of

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Sweat
It is a clear secretion that is primarily water but has some salts, vitamin C, metabolic wastes (ammonia urea, and uric acid), and lactic acid

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What does sebum do for the skin?

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It contains a chemical that helps kill bacteria and prevents the bacteria on the skin surface from invading deeper regions

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Whitehead

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If a sebaceous gland becomes blocked with sebum

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Blackhead

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If the accumulated material of the whitehead oxidizes and dries, it darkens

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What does hair do? (head, nose, eyes)

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Guards the head against bumps, eyelashes shield the eyes, nose hairs help keep foreign particles out of the respiratory tracts

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What does brown toned skin have?

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A lot of melanin

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What do light skinned people have?

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Less melanin, the crimson color of oxygen rich hemoglobin in the dermal blood supply flushes through the transparent cell layers above (gives the skin a rosy glow)

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What do eccrine glands contain?

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Ducts

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What is important about eccrine glands?

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It is a part of the body’s heat regulating equipment

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What are the eccrine glands supplied with?

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Nerve endings, it causes them to secrete sweat when the external temperature or body temperature is high

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Where are the appocrine glands?

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Mostly in the axillary (armpit) and genital areas

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Are eccrine or appocrine glands larger?

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appocrine

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Where do the appocrine glands empty into?

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The hair follicles

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What do appocrine gland secretions contain?

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Fatty acids, proteins, salts, vitamin C, metabolic wastes (ammonia urea, and uric acid), and lactic acid

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What color are appocrine gland secretions?

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Milky or yellowish

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How do appocrine glands create odor?

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It is odorless until bacteria that live on the skin use its proteins and fats as a source of nutrition for their growth, then taking on a musky unpleasant odor

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What is hair?

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A flexible epithelial structure

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What is hair produced by?

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The hair follicle

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What is the hair root?

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The part enclosed in the follicle

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What is the hair shaft?

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The part projecting from the surface of the scalp or skin

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What is the nail?

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A scale like modification of the epidermis that corresponds to the hoof or claw of other animals

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What is the free edge?

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The end white part of the nail

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What is the nail body?

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The visible attached portion (underneath is the basale)

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What is the nail bed?
The part by the cuticle that is embedded in the skin
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What is the nail matrix responsible for?
Nail growth
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How do nails grow?
As the nail cells are produced by the matrix they become heavily keratinized and die. Like hair, the nails are mostly non living material
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What are are sweat glands called?
Sudoriferous glands
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What does sudor mean?
Sweat
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Where are sweat glands?
Widely distributed in the skin
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How many sweat glands does a person have?
More than 2.5 million
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What are the two types of sweat glands?
Eccrine glands and apocrine glands
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What do the sebaceous glands create?
Sebum
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What prefix means grease?
Seb
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What is sebum made out of?
A mixture of oily substances and fragmented cells
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What does sebum do to the hair?
It is a lubricant that keeps the hair soft and moist and keeps it from becoming brittle
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What are the two types of cutaneous glands?
Sebaceous and sweat
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Where are sebaceous glands found?
All over the skin, except for hands and feet
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How do sebaceous glands excrete things?
Their ducts usually empty into hair follicles, but sometimes directly onto the skin surface
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What kind of glands are cutaneous glands?
Exocrine glands
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What do exocrine glands do?
They retain their ducts and their secretions empty through the ducts to the epithelial surface
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What do endocrine glands do?
They lose their connection to the surface, their secretions empty directly into the blood vessels
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What are endocrine glands called?
Ductless glands
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What three pigments contribute to skin color?
Melanin, Carotene, and oxygen
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What is carotene?
An orange/red pigment and is represented by the amount deposited in the stratum corneum and subcutaneous tissue
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What does oxygen do in the skin?
The amount bound to hemoglobin (pigment in red blood cells) in the dermal blood vessels
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What is the reticular layer and what does it contain?
Deepest skin layer; contains blood vessels, sweat and oild glands, and the pacinian corpuscles (deep pressure receptors)
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Where are the dermal papillae located?
On the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet
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How are dermal papillae arranged?
In definite patterns that form looped and whorled edges (fingerprints)
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What do the dermal papillae do to the epidermal surface?
Increases friction and enhances the gripping ability of the fingers and feet
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What do the dermal papillae contain?
Capillary loops
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What do the capillary loops in the dermal papillae do?
Furnish nutrients to the epidermis
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What do other dermal papillae house?
Pain receptors (free nerve endings) and touch receptors
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What is melanin?
A pigment that ranges from yellow to reddish brown to black
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How is melanin produced?
By cells called melanocytes
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Where is melanin found?
In the stratum basale
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How does skin turn tan?
When the skin is exposed to sunlight the melanocytes become stimulated and more melanin pigment is produced
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What are the 5 layers of the epidermis called?
Strata
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What are the layers of the epidermis?
Basale Spinosum Granulosum Lucidum Corneum
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How do the epidermis and dermis relate to each other?
THey are firmly connective
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How do the dermis and epidermis separate?
A burn or friction may cause them to separate, resulting in a blister
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Where is the subcutaneous tissue located?
Deep in the dermis
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What is the subcutaneous tissue called?
Hypodermis
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What are keratinocytes?
Keratin cells
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What do keratinocytes produce?
Keratin
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What is keratin?
The fibrous protein that makes the epidermis a tough protective layer
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What is the subcutaneous tissue made up of?
Adipose tissue
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Something specific about the subcutaneous tissue
Not considered a part of the skin
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What does the subcutaneous tissue do?
Anchors the skin to underlying organs
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What is the stratum basale?
Deepest cell layer of the epidermis and lies closest to the dermis
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What is special about the epidermal cells in the stratus basale?
Contains the only epidermal cells that receive adequate nourishment via diffusion of nutrients from the dermis
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What is constantly happening in the basale?
Cell division, millions of new cells are produced daily
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What is the stratum corneum?
The outermost layer of the epidermal tissue
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What is the stratus corneum also referred to as?
Cornified or horny cells
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What does cornu mean in Latin?
Horn
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How thick is the stratus corneum?
About 20-30 cell layers thick and accounts for 3/4 of the epidermal thickness
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What does keratin do in the stratus corneum?
Abundance of keratin creates a durable over coat
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What does the stratus corneum do?
Protects deeper cells from the hostile external environment and water loss, and helps the body resist biological, chemical, and physical assults
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What does avascular mean?
No blood supply of its own (like the epidermis)
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What is the dermis and what two regions does it consist of?
Dense fibrous tissue, the papillary and the reticular
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What does the papillary layer have in it?
It is uneven and has dermal papillae
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What is the papillary layer?
The upper dermal region
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What does the papillary layer look like?
It had finger like projections from its superior surface, and indents the epidermis
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What is the cutaneous membrane?
Our skin and the superficial epidermis
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What is the cutaneous membrane consisted of?
Keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium
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What is under the cutaneous membrane?
Mostly dense fibrous connective tissue

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