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Integumentary MBLEX

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What makes up the Integumentary System? (There are 5)   Skin, Sweat Glands, oil glands, hair, and nails  
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Skin is also known as what?   Cutaneous membrane  
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What is the largest organ of the integumentary system?   The Skin  
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Sweat Glands are also known as what?   Sudoriferous glands  
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What do ceruminous glands secrete?   Ear Wax  
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What do mammary Glands Secrete?   Milk  
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What are oil glands also called?   Sebaceous Glands  
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What three parts are hair made up of?   A Shaft, A Root, and a follicle.  
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What attachment of the follicle gives rise to goosbumps?   Arrector pilli muscle  
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What seven parts make up a nail?   A free edge, A body, A root, A nail bed, A nail matrix, A lunula, A cuticle.  
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Which part of the nail extends beyond the nail bed?   Free Edge  
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Which part of the nail is the visible portion of the nail?   The Body  
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Which part of the nail is covered by the skin fold?   Root  
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Which part of the nail is the surface of skin where the nail lies?   Nail Bed  
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Which part of the nail is where cells divide?   Nail matrix  
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Which part of the nail is the whitish, crescent shaped area of the nail body?   The lunula  
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Which part of the nail is a narrow band of epidermis that adheres to the nail body?   The Cuticle  
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What are the functions of the skin? (There are Five)   Protection, Sensation, Vitamin D Synthesis, Absorption/Secretion/Excretion/and Respiration, Temperature Regulation  
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What word refers to the sensory receptors in the skin that relay information to the nervous system?   Cutaneous Sensation  
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Meissner Corpuscles and Merkle's Disks are what part of the skin?   Touch Receptors  
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Pain Receptors of the skin include?   Free Nerve Endings  
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Pancinian Corpuscles are what part of the skin?   Pressure Receptors  
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Ruffini's Corpuscles are what part of the skin?   Temperature Receptors  
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The number of individual bacteria on the surface of one square inch of human skin   50 million  
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Oily surfaces, such as the face, may contain how many bacteria per square inch?   500 million  
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What is the external layer of the skin called?   Epidermis  
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What is the internal layer of the skin caled?   Dermis  
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Which of the five layers of the epidermis is where cells actively divide? (mitosis)   Stratum Basale  
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Which of the five layers of the epidermis is where cells are starting to flatten?   Stratum Spinosum  
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Which of the five layers of the epidermis is where cells are undergoing cell death?   Stratum Granulosum  
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What is another name for cell death?   Apoptosis  
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Which of the five layers of the epidermis is where cells are flattened and closely packed?   Stratum lucidum  
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Which of the five layers of the epidermis is where cells are dead, flat and fully keratinized? ( Found only in the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet)   Stratum Corneum  
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What does avascular mean?   without blood  
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The cell type of the epidermis that produces keratin.   Keratinocytes  
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The cell type of the epidermis that produces melanin.   Melanocytes  
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The cell type of the epidermis that participates in immune response.   Langerhan Cells  
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The cell type of the epidermis that detect different aspects of touch.   Merkel Cells  
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Melanocytes make up what percentage of our skin?   2%  
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Where in the skin are Melanocytes and Epithelial Cells found?   The deepest portion of the epdermis  
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The superficial region of the dermis is also called....   Papillary Layer  
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The deeper region of the dermis is also called.....   Reticular Layer  
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What parts make up the dermis? (there are 6)   ateries, arterioles, veins, venules, capillaries, and lymphatics.  
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Where are apocrine glands found?   Genital and axilla area  
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What is inflammation of connective tissue called?   Fibrosiis  
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