Intruduction to the Human Body
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| skin color | determined by many factors: some genetic, some physiological, and some due to disease
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| melanocytes | deep in the epidermal layer are cells that excrete melanin
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| melanin | stains the surrounding cells, causing them to darken the more melanin secreted the darker the skin color
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| albinism | melanocytes completely fail to secret melanin
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| vitiligo | this conditioninvolves loss of pigment (melanin) in certain areas of the skin causing white patches
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| freckles and moles | examples of melanin concentrating in one area
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| melanoma | mole that changes forming a malignant melanoma
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| carotene | yellow pigment, usually hidden my effects of melanin
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| cyanosis | poorly oxygenated blood
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| jaundiced | liver disease caused a person unable to excrete a pigment called bilirubin that is then deposited in the skin
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| ecchymosis | black and blue area; where blood has escaped blood vessels and clotted under the skin
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