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Groups of cells that are similar in structure arranged in a pattern and specialized for the performance of specific tasks |
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What is the study of tissues called |
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What are epithelial tissue |
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Covers body surfaces, lines hollow organs, body cavities, ducts and forms glands |
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What are muscle tissue responsible for |
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What are connective tissue |
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Protects and supports the body and organs, connects structures to each other, store energy, provides immunity |
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Responsible for sensing stimuli, initiates and transmits nerve impulses, and helps coordinate body activities |
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What does epithelial tissue cover and line |
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Covers body surfaces
Lines hollow organs |
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Some types of epithelial tissue produce secretions including? |
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Mucus, digestive juices, and sweat |
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Epithelial tissue is avascular and ennervated which means |
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Without blood vessels and can sense |
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Epithelial tissue has a high rate of |
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What are the features and functions of epithelial tissue |
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Protect the body Filtration Lubrication Absorption Excretion Digestion |
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Epithelial - Squamous cells |
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Epithelial - Cuboidal cells |
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Epithelial - Columnar cells |
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Tall and cylindrical/rectangular |
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Epithelial - Transitional cells |
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Epithelial cells are attached to a |
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Simple epithelial tissue is made up of a |
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Stratified epithelial tissue is made up of |
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Pseudostratified epithelial tissue is made up of |
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A single layer of cells that do not all reach the surface |
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Alveoli of the lungs are what type of tissue |
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Layers on top of each other |
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Stratified squamous epithelium are found where |
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Skin area where protection is needed |
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Psudeostratified epithelial are found where |
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Cells found on bottom and not all reach the top |
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Psuedostratified ciliated columnar epithelial are found where |
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In the trachea, the cells lining the trachea |
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What is muscle tissue made up of |
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The fibers of muscle tissue generate |
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Muscle tissue maintains posture and |
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Stabilizes the body position |
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What are the features and functions of muscle tissue |
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It generates heat Irritability (excitability) Contractility |
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Muscle tissue is well supplied with nerves and |
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Muscle tissue has limited ability for |
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Existing cells for muscle tissue can enlarge and that is called |
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Skeletal (striated) or voluntary muscle are |
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Fibers of muscle tissue are shaped like |
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Cylindrical & are parallel to each other |
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Striated muscle that is involutary |
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The fibers of cardiac muscles are shaped like |
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Smooth or involuntary muscles make up |
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The walls of hollow organs |
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The fibers of smooth or involuntary muscle are what shaped |
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Connective tissue are the most |
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Abundant and most variable type of tissue in the body |
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A myocyte is another name for |
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Touch each other they are separated by a matrix |
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Blood (vascular tissue) is connective tissue with a liquid |
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With connective tissue cells are |
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Blood cells - RBCs WBCs & Platelets |
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interstitial fluid is the |
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Lymph are close to composition |
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Connective tissue - Blood cells transports |
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Nutrients, wastes, enzymes, and hormones |
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Connective tissue functions in |
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Immunity, allergies and blood clotting |
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Lymph are what type of tissue with what type of matrix |
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Connective tissue with a liquid matrix |
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Connective tissue - Areolar are |
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The location of connective tissue - areolar is |
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In the subcutaneous layer of the skin, and mucous membranes and surrounding body organs |
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The functions of the connective tissue - areolar are |
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Strength, support, and elasticity |
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Connective tissue - Adipose are |
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Loose connective tissue that contains adipocytes which store fat |
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Where is connective tissue adipose found |
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Its found with areolar connective tissue in the subcutaneous layer of skin, and mucous membranes and surrounding body organs |
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What are the functions of connective tissue - adipose tissue |
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Energy reserve, thermal insulation, supports and protects various organs |
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Glycogen is what type of energy reserve |
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What is dense (fibrous) connective tissue |
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Contains more fibers and fewer cells than loose connective tissue |
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What does dense (fibrous) connective tissue make up |
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Tendons Ligaments Fibrous membranes that surround certain organs ex.liver, kidneys |
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What is a hard (structural) connective tissue |
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Hard (structural) connective tissue are cells called |
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The matrix of hard (structural) connective tissue is |
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Smooth, firm, and elastic |
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The matrix of hard (structural) connective tissue contains a dense network |
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Of collagen and elastic fibers |
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Which type of tissue is capable of enduring more stress than other other connective tissues |
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Hard (structural) connective tissue |
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Due to hard (structural) connective tissue being avascular that means repair and growth |
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What are the locations of cartilage |
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Covers the tips of long bones Makes up the tip of the nose Reinforces the trachea Pinna of the ear Between the vertebrae of the spine Between the pubic bones |
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The matrix of bone cells are |
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Mineral salts and cologen fibers |
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Bone - connective tissue supports |
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Soft tissues and protects structures |
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Bone tissue works with muscle tissue to |
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Bone - connective tissue makes several |
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Bone - connective tissue stores |
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Bone - connective tissue is vascular and |
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What are the functions of nervous tissue |
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Electric message system
Controls voluntary and involuntary muscles
Receives and integrates environmental stimuli (sensation)
Controls the executive functions of the brain |
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Conducting cells of nervous tissue are called |
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Highly branched processes of the nerve cell that conduct impulses to the cell body are called |
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The cell body contains the |
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A single process that conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body is called an |
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Structural cells of nervous tissue are called |
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What do the structural cells of nervous tissue (neuroglia) protect and support |
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The structural cells (neuroglia) do not |
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Conduct electrical signals |
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An adult mature neuron has a rate of mitosis of |
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What are the functions of the integumentary system |
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Protection Physical protection of the body First line of immune defense |
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What are some more functions of the integumentary system |
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Homeostasis Blood resovoir Sensation Excretion Absorption Synthesis of vitamin D |
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The integumentary system is skin and accessory structures which include |
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Skin Structure: three layers
Epidermis Dermis Subcutaneous layer |
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The epidermis is refereed to as the |
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The epidermis is composed of |
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Stratified squamous epithelium |
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The epidermis is divided into |
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The epidermis is avascular therefor new cells are formed in |
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The lowest strata or layers and migrate upward |
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The stratum corneum of the epidermis is |
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25-30 rows of flat cells that are dead |
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The cells of the stratum corneum that are dead are filled with |
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Cells of the stratum corneum of the epidermis are continuously shed that is called |
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Desquamation/ exfoliation |
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The cells of the epidermis forms a barrier against |
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Heat, light, water and pathogens |
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Stratum granulosum of the epidermis are |
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3-5 rows of flattened cells whose nuclei are breaking down |
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Stratum granulosum of the epidermis is filled with |
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Keratin which protects deeper layers |
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Stratum spinosum of the epidermis are |
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8-10 rows of cells that fit close to each other |
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Stratum spinosum of the epidermis contains |
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Melanocytes - Melanin is the pigment that gives skin its color |
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Stratum germinativum (basale) of the epidermis are |
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Single layer of cuboidal and columnal cells that are capable of cell division |
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Another name for dermis is |
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The dermis is composed of elastic connective tissue that is |
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well supplied with blood vessels and nerves |
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Elastic connective tissue of the dermis is able to |
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The dermis elastic connective tissue varies in |
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Thickness depending on the area it is covering |
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The dermis contains most of the skin accessory |
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The dermis (true skin) papillary region consists of |
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Areolar connective tissue containing fine elastic fibers
Dermal papillae |
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The reticular region of the dermis (true skin) consists of dense |
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Irregular connective tissue containing collagen and coarse elastic fibers. |
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Where is the reticular region of the dermis |
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It rests on top of the subcutaneous layer |
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Another name for subcutaneous layer is |
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Hypodermis/superficial fascia |
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The dermis rests on the superficial fascia which |
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Connects the skint to the underlying surface muscles |
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The subcutaneous layer contains large amounts of |
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Adipose tissue and elastic fibers (no clear seperation between the SC layer and the dermis)
It has a rich nerve and blood supply |
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Sebaceous glands of skin appendages are |
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Exocrine glands that make sebum |
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The duct of the sebaceous glands opens |
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Sebum is an oily secretion that |
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The functions of the sebaceous glands are to lubricate |
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Sudoriferous (sweat) glands of skin appendages are |
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Exocrine glands that make sweat |
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Water, salts, urea, ammonia and sugar |
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The functions of sudoriferous (sweat) glands are |
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Temperature regulation and to a lesser degree waste excretion |
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There are two types of exocrine glands which are |
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eccrine glands which are widely distributes from birth on and
apocrine glands which are found in axila and groin and function a bit before puberty |
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Ceruminous glands of skin appendages are |
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Cerumen produced by exocrine glands in lament terms is called |
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The functions of ceruminous glands of skin appendages is |
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Cerumen forms a sticky barrier that prevents the entrance of foreign bodies |
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Touch receptors (meisners corpuscles) of sensory receptors are |
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Egg shaped receptors for discriminatory touch |
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Where are touch receptors located |
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Where are touch receptors more plentiful |
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Fingertips Palms of hands Soles of feet Eyelids Lips |
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Pressure receptors (pacinian corpuscles) are located where |
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In the SC and submucosal layers as well as serous membranes, around joints, tendons, and muscles |
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Pressure receptors are also referred to as |
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Touch receptors are also referred to as |
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Temperature receptors are also referred to as |
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Temperature receptors (Krauses corpuscles) are also referred to as |
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Temperature receptors have seperate |
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Receptors for hot and cold |
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Pain receptors are referred to as |
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Nociceptors
and have free nerve endings |
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Hair of skin appendages are composed mainly of |
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Keratin filled dead cells |
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Each hair is made by a group of cells called the hair |
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Follicle (living cells that make the hair) |
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Part of the hair that projects above the skin |
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Part of the hair that is under the skin |
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What are the functions of hair |
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Protection from injury Traps foreign particles |
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The nail root is the part that does not |
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The nail plate is the part of the nail |
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That projects out of the skin |
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The nail bed is the layer of epithelium that the |
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What are the functions of nails |
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Protect fingers and toes Assist with fine grasp |
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Skin pigmentation is generated by melanocytes which make |
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Melanocytes are more active when |
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Carotene which is stored in the SC layer adds to |
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Hemoglobin also contributes to skin |
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Albino is a hereditary inability to synthesize |
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Melanin
Lack of pigmentation of the skin, eyes and hair |
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Tannin is an increase in melanin caused by exposure to |
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Pallor is a decreased coloration caused by |
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Decreased blood flow or anemia |
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Increased redness caused by vasodilation usually related to fever is cause |
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Bluish discoloration caused by low O2 levels is called |
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Yellow discoloration of skin and sclera caused by bile pigments in the blood. It is indicative of liver disease and conditions that cause rapid RBC hemolysis its called |
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Any wound or local damage to tissue |
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Rash or eruption (raised lesion) |
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A spot that is even with the surface ex.freckles |
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A firm raised area ex.pimple |
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A vesicle filled with pus |
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Another word for a scratch is |
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A rough jagged wound (skin tear) ex.cut |
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An area associated with death and disintegration of tissue
ex.pressur ulcers |
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Red area that doesn't blanch when pressed |
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Break in the skin partial loss of epidermis or dermis |
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Break that extends to the subcutaneous layer full thickness skin loss does not extend to fascia bone tendon and muscle not visible |
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Full thickness skin loss with exposed muscle, bone, or tendons |
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