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Integumentary System Study Guide

Skin AnatomyBe able to label each of the following structures or regions of skin: hair, hair follicle, adipose tissue, subcutaneous layer, dermis, epidermis, epidermal ridges, stratified squamous epithelium, sebaceous gland, eccrine sweat gland, hair follicle nerve, arrector pili, arrector pili nerve.

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Vocabulary1. Accessory Structures –

2. Keratinocytes –

3. Melanocytes –

4. Stratum / Strata –

5. Epidermal Ridges –

6. Arrector Pili –

7. Mammary Glands –

8. Ceruminous Glands –

Short AnswerBe able to answer questions similar to these.

9. How are collagen and elastin each individually important in the dermis?

10. Compare the causes and symptoms of Harlequin Ichthyosis and Epidermolysis Bullosa.

11. What causes “black and blue” marks?

12. What is the difference between apocrine and eccrine sweat glands? What does each produce?

13. Name the three types of injections and what layer of tissue the needle reaches in each case.

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14. What kind of tissue is found in the epidermis? The subcutaneous layer? Lining the glands?

15. What is the difference between thick skin and thin skin? Where is each found? What other differences are present in these areas?

16. What is the purpose of sebaceous glands? What do they secrete and why?

17. Where in the epidermis would you expect to find the oldest cells? The youngest cells?

18. Where is tattoo ink injected? Why?

19. What is botox, and how does it work?

20. Understand the cause, treatment and how each disease is spread:

a. Athelete’s Foot

b. Ringworm

c. Staph Infection

d. Chicken Pox

e. Warts

f. Cold Sores

21. What kind of infection is acne? What part of the skin does it infect?

22. What causes wrinkles?

23. What causes stretch marks?

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24. Why do we itch? How does scratching relieve it?

25. What do tanning beds emit, and what effect does this have on our skin?

26. Know the difference between the effects of first-degree, second-degree, and third-degree burns.

27. What cells do each of the following cancers occur in? Which is the most and least malignant?

a. Basal cell carcinoma –

b. Squamous cell carcinoma –

c. Malignant melanoma –

28. How can a mole be identified as cancerous or not? (i.e. know the ABCD rule)

29. For each cancerous mole, list all of the

characteristics that identify it as cancerous.

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