Integumentary System Test Study Guide

1. What skin disorder is characterized by extremely dry skin?

2. This layer of epidermis is found only on the palms of the hands
and the soles of the feet?
3. What is it called when portions of the skin stop making melanin?
4. What are Tinea Pedia and Ringworm caused by?
5. What layer of epidermis has all non-viable but protective cells?
6. What cells found in the skin function in immunity?
7. What happens to the vasculature when a person is exposed to
extremely cold temperatures?
8. A doctor can often observe homeostatic imbalances by observing
these changes in the skin?
9. A needle from the outside would pierce the epidermal layers in
which order?
10.
What are the functions of melanocytes?
11.
Where are melanocytes found?
12.
What gives individuals of light skin color the appearance of
having pink cheeks?
13.
Acne is a disorder associated with which glands of the skin?
14.
Which receptors are specialized for the reception of touch?
15.
Does the dermis have more than one layer?
16.
What are the muscles called that are attached to the hair
follicles and cause goose bumps?
17.
Which main layer of skin comprises the majority of the skin?
18.
A blister is considered which type of burn?
19.
If a splinter penetrates into the 3 rd layer of the sole of the
foot, which would be the last layer damaged?
20.
What layer of the epidermis is responsible for mitosis?
21.
What are the specific and unique prints that are different for
almost every individual are called?
22.
List the general patterns for fingerprints.
23.
Which suderiferous gland functions throughout life,
produces a watery secretion and opens directly to the surface of
the skin?
24.
Why are keratinocytes the most important of the epidermal
cells?
25.
What gland secretes wax?
26.
Where is thin skin found?

27.
The genetic condition in which a person is unable to make
melanin is called?
28.
Why do we need healthy exposure to the sun?
29.
How do nutrients reach the surface of the epidermis if there
are no vessels in the epidermis?
30.
What creates new hairs when old ones are lost?
31.
What is the white crescent portion of the nail called?
32.
What is the last layer of epidermis located directly under the
stratum lucidium called?
33.
Which cells produce red/brown/tan pigments?
34.
What damage is caused by 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns?
35.
What are the main functions of the integumentary system?
36.
What cells in the epidermis protect the body from invasion
by bacteria?
37.
What are the 2 types of sweat glands?
38.
This layer of the epidermis is found only on the palms of the
hands and the soles of the feet, name it.
39.
Male pattern baldness has a genetic switch that turns in in
response to what?
40.
What are the primary threats to life due to 3rd degree burns?
41.
What is the secretion of sebum stimulated by?
42.
What is the visible appearance of tears in the dermis called?
43.
Where are apocrine glands found?
44.
When do apocrine glands begin to function?
45.
Are the finger. Hand. Toe, and footprints always the same in
adult identical twins?
46.
What is the secretion of the eccrine glands composed of?
47.
What is the skins main protection against harmful UV rays?
48.
What are fingernails? Not what are they made up of, what
are they?
49.
What disorder is most commonly caused by overexposure
and damage by UV radiation?
50.
What is the most important factor that influences hair
growth?
51.-60~ be able to label a diagram of the skin.