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Health and Wellness
Chapter Six Rosdahl
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
09/11/2009

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Alopecia
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Baldness
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arrector pili
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Muscle attached to a hair folicle that raises the hair.
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cicatrix
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Radiation
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Convection
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Heat is tranferred from a surface (the skin) to the surrounding gases (the air Example:An air current such as a fan can move warm air away from the skin's surface. Convection results in the loss of body heat.
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Radiation
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People and animals give off infrared heat rays.
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Evaporation
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Chemical Process of turning water into vapor.
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Conduction
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The transfer of heat from one object to another b direct contact. the body a large amount of itnernal heat is transmitted y conduction to the skin via the blood vessels. When the body comes in contact with a cooler object. Example a cool cloth on the forehead can help a person feel cooler on a hot day.by
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Radiation
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The diffusion or dissemination of heat by electromagnetic waves.
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Convection
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The dissemination of heat by motion between areas of unequal intensity. EX: An oscillating fan blows currents of cool air across the surface of a warm body.
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Evaporation
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The conversion of a liquid to a vapor. Ex: Body fuliuid in the form of perspiration and insesible loss is vaporized from the skin.
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Alopecia
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carotene
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cerumen
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ceruminal glands
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collagen
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conduction
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convection
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corium
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dermis
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desquamation
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diaphorexis
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epidermis
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freckles
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friable
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hemoglobin
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hypodermis
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integument
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keratin
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melanin
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nevus
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radiation
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sebaceous glands
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sebum
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skin turgor
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squamous
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subcutaneous tissue
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sebum
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squamous
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subcutaneous tissue
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subcutaneous tissue
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amino acid

 

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four types of tissues
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epitheleal
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epthealeal three types classified according to shape: Squamous Cuboidal

Columnar

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simple: one layer

Stratified: many layers

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STaggered in mulitple layers are psuedostratified
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organ changes sizes: bladder and uterus
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Specialized cells excrete mucus
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Definition of Gland? specialized organ that sends out to other parts of the body. Exocrine takes secretion away from the body.  Exocrine look up Exocrine
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check point

three basic shapes of epitheleal cells and endocrine/exocrine

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circulating connective tissue blood and lymph
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blast refers to young a fibroblast is a cell that produces fiber/look up blast
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name for material between connective tissue cells is called matrix
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Matrix general name for intracellular material
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matrix has water fiber and minerals
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Exocrine glands have tubes: five types of exocrine tubuals/ look this up
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connective tissue: two forms of connective tissue :loose and dense/ loose is aerioler (cells and fibers in a jelly matrix and is the most common type vessels organs between muscles
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adopose tissue insulates and pads second form is dense connective tissue, fibrous strong and flexible with collegen
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three types of dense connective tissue: irregular dense with most fibers arranged in random manner make a capsule around organs like the kidneys and liver
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regular dense:has a lot of fibers that are regular and parralel, tendons and ligaments
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blood vessels respiratory tract tissues are what kind of tissue
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generalized connective tissue is cartilage, shock absorber, reduces friction, island carilage fibro cartilage: bone and nose

between the vertebrae and knee joints. Elastic cartilage is ears.

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what protein ma3kes up page 63
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collagen is a flexible white protein
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bone ostios tissue/ ostio blasts form the bone, later they are ostio?
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muscle tissue is striated

smooth muscle is voluntary or vissceral muscle

threee types of muscle tissue

skeletal, something and smooth

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Parts of the Nueron: dendrite, carries t the bodyhe nerve impulse to the body: axion too
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white matter?

Grey matter has no myelin

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basic cellular  nureununit of the nervous system is the
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nueroglia: getn definitio 
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membranes: epitheleal membranes: cirus mucous and,  cutanious

plura pericardium and the periteneum

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cutaneous membrane is the skin/outer epitheleum
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connective tissue membranes/look this up meninges covers the brain and spinal cord, facia, superficial, look up facia
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peri means around

periousteum: around the bone

Peri something else, couldn't understand

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