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Integument
Veterinary integument histology
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Histology
Professional
11/12/2012

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Term
Adnexa
Definition

appandeges of skin

 

hair follicles, sebaceous glands

sweat glands

Term
Apocrine glands
Definition

epitrichial (up on hair/always associated with hair follicle) 

 

sweat glands, simple coiled

 

cuboidal epithilium

 

exocrine, sweat for cooling in horse, pheromones


"blebby surface"


mammary glands = modified apocrine glands

Term
eccrine glands
Definition

atrichial

 

sweat glands in people, not associated with hair follicle

 

foot pads in dogs and cats, frog in horse hooves

 

nose in ruminants and pigs

 

merocrine, exocrine

Term
sebaceous glands
Definition

open into hair follicles, simple branched acinar glands

 

exocrine glands

 

make sebum - block hair folicle, prevent stuff from getting into hair follicle and getting infected

Term
simple coiled exocrine glands
Definition
apocrine and errcrine
Term
purpose of sebum
Definition

secreted by sebaceous glands

 

block hair folicle, prevent stuff from getting into hair follicle and getting infected

 

prevent drying of hair and skin and waterproofing 

waterproofing

 

lanolin

 

Term
holocrine secretion
Definition

cells in sebaceous glands

 

cells degenerate and become secretion

Term
meissner's corpuscles
Definition

innervation in dermus

 

encapsulated

 

papillae

 

light touch

Term
pacinian corpuscles
Definition

encapsulated

 

deeper, ligaments, joint capsules

 

onion looking

 

pressure, course touch

Term
Touch receptors in epidermis
Definition
merkle cells
Term
Hair shaft
Definition
part of hair above epidermis
Term
hair root
Definition
embedded in epidermis and dermis
Term
hair papilla
Definition
core that extends up into hair bulb - contains vessles and nerve twigs
Term
hair follicle
Definition

tubular structure within which hair root lies

 

surrounded by CT sheath

 

Term
cuticle
Definition

thin outermost portion of hair

 

overlapping keratin plates

Term
cortex of hair
Definition

thick layer, bulk of hair shaft

 

keratinized cells connected by desmosomes



pigmented by melanin

Term

medulla in hair

 

Definition

core of hair shaft

 

loose cuboidal cells

Term
arrector pilli muscle
Definition

smooth m. that attaches from CT sheath of follicle to papillary dermis

 

sympathetic

 

hackles up, goosebumps

Term
primary hair follicle
Definition

large diameter

 

deep in dermous

 

sebaeous gland, sweat gland

 

arrector muscle

 

guard hair

Term
secondary hair follicle
Definition

small in diameter

 

shallow

 

no sweat glands 

 

no arrector muscle

 

lack medulla

Term
simple hair follicles
Definition
single hair emerging from follicle 
Term
compound follicle
Definition

several hairs from one opening

 

one primary and several secondary hairs

Term
sinus hair follicle
Definition

stiff/sensory hairs

 

whiskers

 

large, single follicles with blood filled sinus in CT sheath surrounding follicle

 

voluntary movement (skeletal m.)

 

free nerve endings, Merkle cells

Term
Claws
Definition

continuous with epidermis and dermis

 

hard keratin analgous with stratum corneum of epidermis

 

dense irregular CT

 

rich in blood vessles

Term
avian integument
Definition

thinner 

 

does not contain stratum granulosum

 

do not have mammalian glands 

 

contain preen glands

Term
uropygial glands
Definition

preen glands

 

specialized sebaceous gland found in birds

 

water fowl

 

base of tail, dorsal

Term
dermis CT
Definition
loose or dense irregular CT
Term
hypodermis composed of
Definition
collagenous CT and adipose tissue
Term
IFs in stratum spinosum
Definition

cytokeratin

 

tonofibrils (cytokeratin aggregates)

Term
tonofibrils
Definition
cytokeratin aggregates
Term
cells in stratum basale
Definition

columnar or cuboidal

 

stem cells

Term

where are eccrine glands located 

 

in dogs?

 

in cattle?

Definition

dogs: foot pads

 

ruminants: nose

Term
basophilic granules in stratum  granulosum
Definition
keratohyaline
Term
keratohyaline
Definition

located in stratum ganulosum

 

made of proillagrin

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