Integumentary System Word Scramble
|
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Term | Definition |
lanugo | fine soft hair |
keratin | a tough protein found in hair, nails, and honry skin tissues |
scleroprotein | a hard fibrous protein found in keratin |
horny | resembling a horn or hardness; pertaining to a horn |
arrector | that which raises an eretor muscle |
arrectores pilorum | the tiny smooth muscles attached to the hair follicles that make the hair stand erect when contracted "raisers ot the hair" |
cilium | an eyelash a mircoscopic motile hairlike process found on the surface of certain cells |
capillary | tiny blood vessels connecting arterioles and venules pertaining to or resembling hair |
lunula | halfmoon (cresent-shaped) white arch near the root of a nail |
Created by:
Wolkowski
Popular Medical sets