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Adipose Tissue
Location: under skin, around kidneys and eyballs, in breasts
Functions: reserves food fuel, insulates, supports and protects organs |
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What are the 6 stages in Mitosis? |
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1. Interphase
2. Early Prophase
3. Late Prophase
4. Metaphase
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Areolar Connective Tissue
Function: Wraps and cushions organs, bacteria=role in inflammation, holds and conveys tissue fluid
Location: Under epithelia, forms lamina propria of mucous membranes=packages organs, surrounds capillaries |
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Dense Regular Connective Tissue
Function: attaches muscles to bones or to muscles, attaches bones to bones, takes stress well
Location: Tendons, Most Ligaments, aponeuroses |
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Elastic Cartilage Tissue
Function: Maintains the shape of a structure while allowing flexibility
Location: External ear, epiglottis
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Stratified Squamous Epithelium
Function: Protects underlying from abrasion
Locaton: (Nonkeratinized) Esophagus, mouth, and vagina, (Keratinized-dry) epidermis of the skin |
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Fibrocartilage
Function: Strong and ability to absorb compressive shock
Location: Intervertebral discs, pubic symphysis, discs of knee joint |
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Hyaline Cartilage
Function: supports and reinforces, cushioning, resists compressive stress
Location: covers ends of long bones in joint cavities, forms costal cartilage (ribs), nose trachea, and larynx, most embryonic skeleton |
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Interphase
First Stage
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Metaphase
Lining of chromosomes
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Telophase
Cells start to pull apart before completely separating
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Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium
Functions: Secretion (mucus), propulsion of mucus by cilliary action
Location: (nonciliated) type in male's sperm-carrying ducts, ducts of large glands, (ciliated) lines trachea, upper respiratory tract |
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Simple Columnar Epithelium
Function: Absorption, secreation of mucus, enzymes, and other substances, ciliatd type propels mucus
Location:(Nonciliated) lines most digestive track, gallbladder, (ciliated) lines small bronchi, uterine tubes, regions of uterus |
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Simple Cuboidal Epithelium
Function: Secreation and Absorption
Location: Kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands, ovary surface |
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Simple Squamous Epithelium
Function: Allows passage of material by diffucsion and filtration (where protction not important); secreates lubrication substances in serosae
Location: Kidney glomeruli, air sacs of lungs, lining of heart, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels, lining of ventral body cavity (serosae) |
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Transitional Epithelium
Function: Stretches readily, permits distension of urinary organ by contained urine
Location: Lines ureters, bladder, and part of the urethra |
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Sectioned Eccrine Gland
(simple coiled tubular gland)
Location: soles of feet, forehead, palms |
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Sectioned Sebaceous Gland
(or oil glands, sebaceous=greasy)
Location: all over body except for soles and palms
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What is Basal Cell Carcinoma |
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most common, slow growing, full cure (surgical excision)
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What is Squamous Cell Carcinoma? |
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arises from keratinocytes, grow rapidly if not removed, if caught early and removed by radiation or sugically, chances of cure is good.
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cancer of melanocytes, deadly because highly metastic and resistant to chemo,
can be where ever theres pigment, ABCD(E)
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What is the Rule of Nines? |
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measuring fluid loss from burns in percentages (divdes into 11 areas)
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Produce a tough fibrous protein that gives the epidermis its protective qualities |
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Responsible for skin pigmentation |
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Sensory receptor for touch |
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Present antigens to killer T lymphocytes |
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Single row of cells composed of keratinocyte stem cells, melanocytes, and Merkel cells
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Several cell layers thick, with intermediate filaments, keratinocytes and Langerhans' cells
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Three to five layers of flattened keratinocytes possessing filaments and keratohyaline and lamellated granules
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A thin, translucent band consisting of a few rows of flat, dead, keratinocytes
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Many cell layers of dead keratinocytes filled with keratin (outermost layer of skin)
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(Clear Layer)
between corneum and granulosum
is dead keratinocytes
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Keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
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Adipose connective tissue
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Papillary layer of dermis |
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Areolar connective tissue
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Reticular layer of dermis |
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Dense irregular connective tissue
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What skin function: Provides a chemical barrier and a mechanical barrier to ward off bacterial invasion and to provide "waterproofing" |
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What skin function has: Dilation of blood vessels and secretion of sweat that evaporates from body surface |
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Body temperature regulation |
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What skin function has: Activation of numerous receptors that are part of the nervous system |
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What skin function has:Synthesis of vitamin D; destruction of cancer-causing chemicals; activation of some steroid hormones |
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What skin function has: Potential to hold about 5% of the body's blood volume in numerous blood vessels |
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What skin pigment has to do with red skin? |
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What skin pigment has to do with yellow to orange skin? |
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What skin pigment has to do with blue colored skin? |
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What skin pigment has to do with skin color that ranges from yellow to reddish to brown to black? |
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The portion of the hair that is embedded in the skin |
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Superficial covering of a hair consisting of a single layer of cells that overlap one another |
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Region of a hair that projects above the skin surface |
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The central core of a hair, consisting of large cells and air spaces |
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The intermediate layer of a hair composed of several layers of flattened cells |
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Actively dividing cellular area of the bulb that produces the hair |
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Connective tissue root sheath |
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Superficial wall of the hair follicle which is derived from the dermis |
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The expanded, deep region of a hair follicle |
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A knot of sensory nerve endings wrapped around the base of a hair follicle |
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Bundle of smooth muscle tissue running from the superficial dermis to the hair follicle; responsible for producing goose bumps |
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What gland is: Found all over the body except the palms and soles |
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Sebaceous glands
(oil glands)
secrete sebum |
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What gland is: Most abundant on the palms, soles, and forehead |
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Eccrine (sudoriferous) glands
sweat
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What gland is: Axillary, anal, and genital regions |
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Apocrine sudoriferous glands
true sweat+fatty acids= apocrine
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What glands: Line the external ear canal |
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Ceruminous glands
(cera=wax)
cerumen=earwax (block entry?) |
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Mammary glands
secrete milk |
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Eccrine sudoriferous gland |
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Components of sweat plus fatty substances and proteins |
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Apocrine sudoriferous gland |
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Visible, attached part of the nail |
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Epidermis on which the nail rests |
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Proximal region of the nail, embedded in the skin |
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Actively growing part of the nail |
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White, crescent-shaped area under the nail's proximal region |
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Damage to only the epidermis that results in redness, swelling, and pain |
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Injury to the epidermis and the superficial region of the dermis resulting in redness, swelling, pain, and blisters |
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The entire thickness of the skin is consumed, resulting in the burned area appearing white, red, or blackened. |
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Least malignant form of skin cancer in which the stratum basale cells proliferate and invade the dermis and hypodermis, causing tissue destruction |
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Arises from the keratinocytes of the stratum spinosum with lesions appearing as scaly, irregular, reddened small, rounded elevations that tend to grow rapidly and metastasize if NOT removed |
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The "most dangerous form" of skin cancer because it is highly metastatic; can originate wherever there is pigment, but often arises from existing moles, metastasizing rapidly into surrounding circulatory vessels |
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The two halves of a spot or a mole do NOT match |
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Pigmented spot possesses notches and indentations |
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Inconsistent pigmentation |
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Rises above the skin surface |
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A rare condition where hair follicles are attacked by the immune system, causing the hair to fall out in patches
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Fluid-filled, raised lesions, common around the mouth and nose, that develop a yellow crust and eventually rupture; contagious
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Large, unsightly mass of scar tissue at the skin surface produced by excessive and prolonged proliferation of connective tissue during the healing of skin wounds
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Chronic inflammatory condition, resulting from an over proliferation of the epidermis, characterized by reddened epidermal papules covered with dry, silvery scales
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Causes yellowing of skin, especially in palms and soles from accumulation in stratum corneum when consumed in large amounts |
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Too much carotene
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Increased production of melanin due to increased exposure to the sun |
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Yellowish to pale-green coloring of skin caused by an accumulation of bile pigments in blood |
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What causes: Possible heart failure; possible respiratory disorders |
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Cyanosis
deoxygenated hemoglobin is more prone to the optical bluish discoloration
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What causes: Fever, hypertension, polycythemia, inflammation, allergy |
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Redness or erythema
hyperemia of the capillaries in the lower layers of the skin. It occurs with any skin injury, infection, or inflammation.[1]
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Fear, anger, stress, anemia, low blood pressure |
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Addison's disease; hypofunction of adrenal cortex |
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Blood clots beneath the skin |
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Black and blue marks or bruises |
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Secrete a hypotonic filtrate of the blood (99% water with traces of salt, vitamin C, antibodies, metabolic wastes and lactic acid) |
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Contains same secretions as true sweat, plus fatty substances and proteins. When these organic molecules decompose by bacterial action there is an associated unpleasant odor |
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Modified apocrine glands that secrete earwax |
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Modified sweat glands that secrete milk |
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Holocrine glands that secrete an oily substance called sebum to lubricate skin and hair |
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What has: Maximum production of melanin |
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What has: No production of melanin; no iron-containing pigment |
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What has: Absence of melanin; presence of iron-containing pigment |
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What has: Replacement of melanin with air bubbles in the hair shaft as melanin production decreases |
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What has: Presence of vernix caseosa produced by sebaceous glands |
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What has:Skin thickening and more subcutaneous fat is deposited |
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Skin and hair become oilier as sebaceous glands are activated; dermatitis becomes more common in... |
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Epidermal cell replacement declines; skin thins; sebaceous gland activity diminishes in... |
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Body hair of children and adult females |
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Coarser, long, darker hairs |
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Genetically predetermined balding |
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