| Functions | Structure | Appendages | Pathologies |
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What is communication?
Facial expressions fulfill this function.
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What is diffusing through the tissue fluid from blood vessels in the dermis?
This process brings nutrients to the surface of the skin.
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What are hair and nails?
These are the appendages.
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What is scar tissue?
These are severe wounds.
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What is thermoregulation?
This is the regulation of body temperature.
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What are melanosomes, keratinized cells, and keratin?
These three things are components of the epidermis.
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What is the epidermis?
Hair and nails are modifications of this.
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What are histamines?
This causes tissue swelling.
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What are keratin and sebum?
These substances prevent water loss.
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What is the stratum corneum?
This layer of the skin is the most superficial.
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What is raising hair to an upright position?
Goosebumps occur due to this.
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What are redness, heat, swelling, and pain?
These are the four symptoms of inflammation.
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What are melanin, ketanin, and vitamin D?
Skin synthesizes all of these.
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What is the dermis?
This is the layer of skin in which tattoo ink resides.
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What are the arector pili muscles?
These raise hair to the vertical position.
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What are surface, depth, and location?
These determine the gravity of burns.
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What are touch, pressure, heat, cold, and pain?
These are all of the things that skin can sense.
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What is the stratum basale?
The reproducing cells of the epidermis are found in this layer of skin.
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What are matrix cells?
This produces new hairs.
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What are cells above basal cells?
This is where squamous cell carcinoma comes from.
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