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Cutaneous membranes
o Cutaneous membranes
o Mucous membranes
o Serous membranes
Connective tissue membranes
o Synovial membranes
EPITHELIAL MEMBRANES
INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
Hair
o Produced by the hair follicle
o Root in enclosed in the follicle
o Shaft projects from the surface of the
scalp or skin
o Consists of hard keratinized epithelial
cells
o Melanocytes provide pigment for hair
color
o Hair grows in the matrix of the hair bulb
in stratum basale
Sweat (sudoriferous) glands
o Produce sweat
o Widely distributed in the skin
Two types of sudoriferous glands
o Eccrine glands
o Apocrine glands
Eccrine glands
Open via duct to sweat pores on the skin’s
surface
Produce acidic sweat
- Dermal region provides a blood supply
to the hair bulb (deepest part of the
follicle)
- Arrector pili hairs upright when we are
cold or frightened
Hair anatomy
o Central medulla Nails
o Cortex surrounds the medulla o Heavily keratinized, scalelike
o Cuticle on the outside of the cortex modifications of the epidermis
- Most heavily keratinized region of the o Stratum basale extends beneath the
hair nail bed, which is responsible for the
growth
o Lack of pigment makes nails colorless
Parts of a nail
o Free edge
o Body is the visible attached portion
o Nail folds are skin folds that overlap the
edges of the nail; the cuticle is the
proximal edge
o Root of the nail is embedded in the skin
o Growth of the nail occurs from the nail
matrix