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What are the accessory structures of the skin?   hair, skin glands, and nails  
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what type of cells is hair?   dead keratonyte cells, stratified squamous  
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Where on the body are their no hair?   palms, lips, soles of feet  
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What is the scientific name for hair?   pili  
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In what parts are their excessive hair?   scalp, arm pits, eyebrows  
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What causes thickness and distribution of hair among body?   hormones  
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What is the visible portion if the hair which pertrudes out of the skin?   shaft  
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What is deep to the shaft and penetrates into dermis?   root  
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What are the layers of the hair?   medula, cortex, cuticle, epithelial root sheath  
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What is composed of interior and exterior root sheath?   epithelial root sheath  
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What covers the hair follicle?   derma root sheath  
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What is the bulgy part of the hair follicle?   bulb  
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what type of cells does the bulb consist of?   germanal cells  
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What do the cells undergo?   cell division  
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Where do the germanal cells reside?   matrix region  
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What type of glands are attached to each follicle?   sabaceous glands  
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What type of muscle is the arrector pili muscle?   smooth muscle  
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How are goosebumps formed?   when the arrector pili muscle contracts  
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How long is the hair growth stage?   2-6 years  
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What is the resting stage?   hair growth stops  
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What is the partial or complete hair loss?   alopecia  
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What causes alopecia?   hormones, age, skin disease, kemotherapy  
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What makes up hair color?   amount and type of melanin  
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What amount of melanin does white hair have?   no melanin  
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What amount of melanin does grey hair have?   a lack of melanin  
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What type of hair is fine and nonpigmented?   lanugo hair  
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During what period do you have lanugo hair?   9-12 weeks after fertilization  
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What does lanugo hair cover?   fetus body  
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When does it shed?   before birth  
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What type of hair replaces lanugo hair?   vellus hair  
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What is the thicker courser hair?   terminal hair  
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What masculizing sex hormone causes it?   androgen  
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Where is androgen secreted?   testes, ovaries, adrenal glands  
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What type of hair are males composed of?   95% terminal, 5% vellus  
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What type of hair are females composed of?   35% terminal, 65% vellus  
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What is hersutsium?   excessive hair growth  
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What causes male-patter baldness?   androgens that may inhibit hair growth  
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What are the diffierent glands?   sabaceous, sudoriferous, ceruminous-cerumen  
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What do sabaceous glands excrete?   sebum  
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what is sebum?   oily substance that lubricate hair, prevents from dryness, and is rich in lipids  
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Where are sabaceous glands located?   dermis  
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What skin problem is the inflamation of sabaceous glands?   acne  
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What are the two different types of sweat glands?   eccrine and apocrine  
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what causes sweat from eccrine?   elevated body temp  
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what causes sweat from apocrine?   emotional stress, sexual excitement  
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What is ceruminous?   modified sweat gland  
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what is cerumen?   waxy substance  
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Where is cerumen excreted?   ear canal  
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What are nails made up of?   hard, dead, keratonized, epidermal cells  
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What jobs do nails have?   protection, grasp small objects, scratching, protction against trauma  
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What is the lanula made of?   densly packed with cells  
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What is the cuticle composed of?   narrow band of epidermal cells  
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What secures the nail to the finger?   hyponychium  
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What factors contribute to nail growth?   season, time, and weather  
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How does body react to excessive heat?   dilation of dermal blood vessels and sweating  
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How does body respond to excessive cooling?   constricting dermal blood vessels, inactivating sweat glands, and shivering  
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What active cells produce heat?   heart and skeletal cells  
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What controls the skins role in temperature   hypothalamus  
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blood vessels dilate and become more permeable, causing tissues to become red and swollen   inflammation  
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What are superficial cuts filled with?   reproducing epithelial cells  
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How are deeper cuts filled?   closed off by clots, covered by scabs, and eventually filled in by fibroblasts, making connective tissue  
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How are epidermal wonds healed?   Repaired by enlargement and migration of basal cells, contact inhibition (cellular response), and division of migrating and stationary basal cells  
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What are the four phases of deep wound healing?   inflammatory phase, migratory phase, a proliferative phase , and maturation phase  
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