Question | Answer |
What three types of organisms live on a humans skin | bacteria, fungi, and skin mites |
How do antibiotics work to contain infection | By killing most of the infection-causing bacteria in your body. It kills the bacteria by distroying the cell wall or outer covering, the immune system kills the rest |
Discribe ways mictoorganisms are identified in the laboratory | By using a gram's stain or a acid fast stain |
What is the function of bacteria on the skin | A one cell organism that eats the sebum your body produces |
What is the function of skin mites on the skin | a micro animal that eats the dead skin on the body and normaly attaches to the hair |
What is the function of fungi on the skin | A microorganism that rest on the skin to wait on the chance to infect the body |
What are the accessory structres of the skin | Sweat glands, Oil glands, hair, and nails |
What layer of skin contains the accessory structures of the skin | The dermis |
What are the two layers of skin | The dermis and the epidermis |
Discribe the epidermis layer of skin | The outer most portion, it is composed of epithelial cells and contains no blood vessels |
Discribe the dermis layer of skin | The framework of connective tissue and contains many blood vessels, nerve endingsm and glands |
What abnormalitie of the skin is paleness of the skin often caused by reduced blood flow, or by reduction in hemoglobin | Pallor |
What abnormalitie of the skin is redness of the skin | Fulshing |
What abnormalitie of the skin is a yellowish discoloration of the skin | Jaundice |
What abnormalitie of the skin is bluish discoloration of the skin | Cyanosis |
What abnormalitie of the skin is yellow-orange discoloration of the skin | Carotenemia |
What lesion is a crack in the skin | Fissure |
What lesion is a vesicle filled with pus | Pustule |
What lesion is a rough, jagged wound | Laceration |
What lesion is a red spot neither raised nor depressed | Macule |
What lesion is a scratch into the skin | Excoriation |
What lesion is a blister or small sac of fluid | Vesicle |
What lesion is a sore with dead tissue | Ulcer |
What lesion is a firm, raised area | Papule |
What burn involves full skin and possible subcutaneous tissue; skin is broken, dry, and pale, or charred | Full-thickness |
What burn involves epidernis and maybe dermis; tissue is red and may blister, such as a sunburn | Superficial partial-thickness |
What burn involves epidermis amd portions of the dermis; tissue is blistered, broken, and weeping | Deep partial-thickness |
How do cuts heal | After the blood has clotted and a scab has formed new vessels branch and grow into the injure tissue, Fibroblast manufacture collagen to close the gap made by the wound, new connective tissue develops from within the wound to form a scar |
What skin disorder is inflammation of the skin | Dermatits |
What skin disorder is a chronic overgrowth of the epidermis leading to large, sharply outlined, red, flat areas covered with silvery scales | Psoriasis |
The Amebas helminths causes what disease | Entamoeba histolytica |
What is a cicatrix | A scar |
What are keloids | Tumor like masses or sharply raised areas on the skin surface |
What is the natural process of cells being lost from the epidermis and replaced by the cells below | Exfoliation |
Cells in the deepest layer of the epidermis that produce the pigment that colors and protects the skin are called | Melanocytes |
What does integumentary system mean | Covering |
What is the function of the subcutaneous layer | It connects the skin to the surface muscles |
What are freckles | Irregular patches of melanin |
What structure of the skin produces sebum | Sebaceous glands |
What is the purpos of sebum | To lubricate the skin and hair |
What is the cream-cheese like substance that covers and protects a baby in the uterus from the amniotic fluid | Vernix caseosa |
The blockage of which gland can cause a cyst that must be removed surgically | Sebaceous cyst |
What are hair follicles | A sheath of epithelial and connective tissue that encloses the hair |
What skin structure is associated with hair follicles | Sebaceous Gland |
What is the function of the arrector pili muscle | It is a muscle that is attached to the hair follicles and when it contracts the hair raises forming goose bumps on the skin |
What is the name for sweat glands | Sudoriferous glands |
What type of glands are modified sweat glands that produce ear wax | Ceruminous glands |
The proximal end of the nail where new cells form is the | Nail root |
The portion of the nail resting on the nail bed is the | Nail plate |
Epithelial tissue of the finger under the nail is known as the | Nail bed |
The "little moon" or the crescent shaped light area that lies over the growing regin of the nail is the | Lunula |
This seals the space between the nail plate and the skin | Cuticle |
What two illnesses can cause changes in the nail | Heart disease and vascular disease |
Albinism is due to | A lack of melanin |
A skin disorder that causes intense itching and skin inflammation and includes erythema, vesicles, and papules, along with scaling and crusting is | Atopic disease |
What is a chronic overgrowth of the epidermis leading to large, sharply outlined, red, flat areas covered with silvery scales | Psoriasis |
What is a birthmark or mole called | Nevus |
A milignant tumor of melanocytes is called | Melanoma |
What is a disease of the sebaceous glands conected with the hair follicles | Acne |
Most common type of acne that normaly affects people between the ages of 14 and 25 is called | Acne vulgaris |
An acute contagious disease of staph or strep thath causes blisterlike lesions filled with pus and may cause death in newborn infants. | Impetigo |
What virus causes the formation of watery visicles on the skin and mucous | Herpes simplex virus |
What type causes lesions around the mouth and nose | Type I herpes |
What type is responsible for genital infesction | Type II herpes |
What virus is seen in adluts that the infection follows nerve pathways, producing small lesions on the skin | Shingles |
What is another name for a wart | Verruca |
A small tumor caused by a virus of the HPV is a | Wart |
This term means baldness | Alopecia |
A skin lesion that appear where the body rests on the skin that covers bony projections such as spine, heel, elbow, or hips is known as a bed sore or decubitus ulcer or | Pressure ulcers |
Term for itching | Pruritis |
another name for shingles | Herpes zoster |