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Physiology

Week 4-Tissue and the skin

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Which cells of the skin act as a type of antigen-presenting cell in the skin? Dendritic cells
Which skin layer contains closely packed, clear cells that contain a gel-like substance called eleidin? Stratum lucidum
Which is not part of a hair? Lanugo
Smooth muscles that produce goose pimples when they contract are the _____ muscles. arrector pili
Which skin layer is called the barrier area? Stratum corneum
Apocrine sweat glands can be found in all of the following areas except the soles of the feet.
Fingernail growth is the result of the mitosis of the cells in the stratum germinativum.
The hair follicle is found in the dermis.
The hair papilla consists of _____ tissu dermal
The gland responsible for the waxy secretion in the external ear canal is ceruminous.
The nail body forms at the nail root, which has a matrix of proliferating cells from the _____________ that enables the nail to grow continuously stratum basale
Which cells of the skin are filled with a tough, fibrous protein and account for most of the epidermal cells of the skin? Keratinocytes
In which skin layer does the process of keratinization begin? Stratum granulosum
Which skin layer has cells that look prickly because of the desmosomes that join the cells together? Stratum spinosum
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