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Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Intercellular Junctions

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Structures that connect cell membranes

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Tight Junction

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Type of intercellular junction where the membranes of adjacent cells coverage and fuse.

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Desmosome

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Specialized junction between cells, which serves as a “spot weld.”

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Gap Junction

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Gap junctions form channels linking the cytoplasm of adjacent cells

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Cilia

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Microscopic, hair-like extensions of the exposed surface of most cells.

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Microvilli

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Tiny extensions of the cell membrane that absorb substances.

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Keratin

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Intracellular protein in epidermis, hair, and nails.

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Exocrine gland

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Gland that secretes it’s products into a duct or onto an outside body surface.

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Endocrine Gland

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Gland that secretes hormones directly into the blood.

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Fibroblast

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Cell that produce fibers in connective tissues.

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Macrophage

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Large phagocytic cell.

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Serous Membrane

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Membrane that lines a cavity without an opening to the outside of the body and covers the organs in these cavities.

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Mucus Membrane

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Membrane that lines cavities and tubes opening to the outside of the body.

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Cutaneous membrane

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Membrane is the extreme body covering commonly called skin.

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Synovial Membrane

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Membrane that forms the inner lining of the capsules of the freely movable joint.

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16
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What is the outer, epithelial layer of the skin

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epidermis

17
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What is the thick layer of the skin beneath the epidermis?

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dermis

18
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What is the loose connective tissue layer beneath the skin?

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Hypohtermis

19
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What is the transfer melanin to nearby epidermal cells?

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Melanocytes

20
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What is an epidermal cell that produces keratin?

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Keratinocytes

21
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What is also known as epidermal dendritic cells and play a role in initiating the immune response by phagocytizing harmful microorganisms?

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Langerhans cells

22
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What is the smooth muscle in the skin associated with a hair follicle?

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Arrector pili

23
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What is the major sweat gland of the body?

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Eccrine gland

24
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What type of gland whose secretions contain parts of secretory cells?

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Apocrine gland

25
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What modified sweat glands that secretes ear wax?

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ceruminous gland

26
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What skin gland that secretes sebum which softens and waterproofs both skin and hair?

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sebaceous gland

27
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What is any burn injuring only the epidermis?

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first degree burns

28
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What is a burn that destroys some epidermis as well as some underlying dermis?

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Second degree burn

29
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What burn that destroys the epidermis, dermis, and the accessory structures of the skin?

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Third degree burn

30
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What is the cutaneous carcinomas originate from epithelial cells. Cutaneous melanomas arise from melanocytes?

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types of cancer

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