INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM Precious Hodges Rasmussen College Medical Terminology March‚ 15‚ 2013 This paper is being written for Sarah Rodarte’s Medical Terminology Class at Rasmussen College submitted by Precious Hodges Skin sebaceous Glands are classified under the pilosebaceous unit and contain both a hair follicle and a hair. The glands are located everywhere in the body expect in the palms‚ soles‚ top of the feet‚ and the lower lip. The glands are heavily located on the face‚ upper
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BSC 2085C – Anatomy & Physiology I Lab 5: The Integumentary System Name Directions: There are five (5) activities in this lab. Please be sure to complete them all. For all questions‚ type your answers into the yellow box ____ (including your name above) it will expand as you write. Activity 1: The Skin 1-1: Enter the letter of the correct structure in the space provided: A. adipose tissue 1. __3__ B. eccrine sweat gland 2. __8__ C. arrector pili muscle 3. __7__ D. dermis 4. __1__ E. hair
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CHAPTER 6 Integumentary System • Dermatology – scientific study and medical treatment of the integumentary system. • Integumentary System – consists of the skin and its accessory organs – hair‚ nails‚ and cutaneous glands • skin is the most vulnerable organ • skin is the most vulnerable organ – exposed to radiation‚ trauma‚ infection‚ and injurious chemicals • body’s largest and heaviest organ Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue • consists of two layers: – epidermis – stratified squamous epithelium
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Integumentary System Laszlo Vass‚ Ed.D. Version 42-0280-00-01 Lab RepoRt assistant This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions‚ diagrams if needed‚ and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by providing this information in an editable file which can be sent to an instructor
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INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM FUNCTIONS 1. Covering and protection 2. Secretion (cutaneous gland) 3. Excretion of metabolic wastes (cutaneous gland) 4. Sensation (presence of nerve endings and tacticle) 5. Respiration – in frog 6. Absorption – in frog 7. Regulation of body temperature HOMOIOTHERMOUS ANIMALS- warm blooded animals or those with regulated body temperature because of their heat-conserving body. POIKILOTHERMOUS ANIMALS - cold blooded animals whose body temperature closely follows
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A Disease of the Integumentary System September 28‚ 2011 Abstract There are many diseases that affect the Integumentary system‚ due in some part to the fact that it contains the largest organ in the human body‚ which is the skin. The some of these diseases can be seen as rashes‚ dark spots‚ or just patches of itchy areas. The disease that will be discussed in throughout this paper is called Alopecia Areata. One will cover areas such as a description of the disease‚ as well as the causes‚
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The organ systems of the human body are interdependent because one organ of the connects to another organ system. Organs are made up of tissues which that work together to keep organism‚ in this essay humans‚ alive. One function of a system always leads to another systems function. If one organ becomes ineffective/damaged‚ then that person may not function well and end up passing away. There are eleven organ systems within the human body: integumentary‚ skeletal‚ muscular‚ nervous‚ endocrine‚ circulatory/cardiovascular
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The two organ systems in the human body I chose were the lymphatic system and the integumentary system. The lymphatic system is there to help fight off diseases and is vital part of the immune system. Integumentary system function is to protect you against infection and other homeostasis. They both play an important role within the human body because we need to protect
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Anatomy and Physiology Chapter 4 pages 76-90 Integumentary System Define: 1.)Integument: Is another name for skin‚ and the skin itself is the principal organ of the Integumentary system. 2.)Membranes: Thin layer or sheet-like structures that have many important functions in the body. 3.)Epithelial Membranes: One of the two major category types of membranes in the body. Epithelial Membranes are composed of epithelial tissue and an underlying layer of specialized connective
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1.Name the tissue types composing the epidermis and dermis. List the major layers of each and describe the functions of each layer. The epidermis is composed of keratinized stratified squamous epithelium tissue. The cells are specifically keratinocytes‚ melanocytes‚ Merkel cells‚ and Langerhans’ cells. The layers of the epidermis are the basal layer (stratum basale)‚ it is the deepest layer and is attached to the dermis‚ the cells are actively mitotic. The next layer is the prickly layer (stratum
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