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Integumentary System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Integument means? | COVERING |
| The Integuntary system is an organ system which consists of four things, what are they? | -skin,-hair,-nails,-exocrine glands |
| Medical term for skin? | Integumentary system |
| Five major functions of our skin | Protection, Sensory response, Vitamin D, Control of the body Temperature, Ridding the body wastes. |
| Protection | Fluid loss and injury |
| Temperature regulation | 36C or 98F |
| Sensation | Skin communication organ or sending information to the brain like sense of touch, pressure, temp. and pain. |
| Vitamin D | Vitamin D helps normal absorption of calcium from the large intestines. |
| Lack of Vitamin D in Children causes | Rickets |
| What is rickets? | Bone sotening or weakening. |
| Waste disposal | Skin serve site for execretion of waste materials through perspiration(sweating) Such as excess salts. |
| Layers of the skin | Epidermis, Dermis and subcutneous(hypodermis) |