What are the 3 pigments that combine to determine the skin’s color? What is the origin of each pigment?
Chapter 6
1. What are the 3 layers of the skin (really 2 layers and fat underneath the skin)?
2. What tissue composed the epidermis? Why is skin keratinized?
3. What cells in the skin are primarily responsible for pigmenting the skin? What pigment do they make?
4. What are the 5 cell layers of the epidermis?
5. What is the most superficial living cell layer in the epidermis?
6. What layer is found only in thick skin? Where is thick skin found?
7. What are the 2 layers of the dermis? What is the principle tissue type in each layer?
8. What are dermal papilla? What structures are found in the dermal papilla?
9. What are the 3 pigments that combine to determine the skin’s color? What is the origin of each pigment?
10. What are the 4 sweat glands (or modified sweat gland)? Describe the product of each gland.
11. What are sebaceous glands? What do they make?
12. What is hair? What protein is the major constituent of hair? What determines the natural hair color?
13. What are the major functions of hair on the body?
14. Where do we NOT find hair on the body?
15. What is the function of the arrector pili muscle?
16. Describe terminal and vellus hair. Where are each found?
17. What is alopecia areata? How is this different from male pattern baldness? Who can get it?
18. What is hirsutism? What about hypertrichosis?
19. What are the major functions of the integument?
20. What are the 3 most common forms of skin cancer? What tissues are responsible for each?
21. What is the ABCDE rule for melanoma? Be able to identify examples of moles from a description that would be concerning.
22. Describe the 3 degrees of burn severity. What are the symptoms of each?
23. What is the Rule of 9s? Be able to use the Rule of 9s to determine the coverage of burns in a patient.
24. Be able to determine of a burn qualifies as a severe burn.
25. What is the lanugo? What is its function?
26. What is vernix caseosa? What is its function?
