Exam 10: Skin

One end of the arrector pili muscle is attached to a hair follicle.

Cells in the stratum lucidum do not have a high metabolic rate, because they usually do not have a nucleus.

Fingerprints are an example of the friction ridges of the skin.

Match each term with its definition or description. -Structure attached to hair that can lift it and causes goose bumps

The body's temperature control center is located in the:

In thin skin, some of the strata of the skin may be absent.

The cells of the germinal matrix are responsible for forming hair.

Heat loss by the skin is controlled by a negative-feedback loop.

Onycholysis is usually caused by:

Which type of body heat loss is characterized by heat transfer from the surface of one object to the surface of another object without actual contact?

A person leaning against a cold cement block wall would lose heat by the process of:

One of the factors associated with the common type of baldness is the presence of testosterone.

An abnormal thickening of the stratum corneum is called hyperkeratosis.

Hair follicles and skin glands, made up of epithelial tissue, extend from the epidermis into the reticular layer.

The term used to describe the skin and its appendages is:

The shedding of epithelial elements from the skin surface is called desquamation.

A large amount of fat can be stored in the hypodermis.

The darkest of the skin pigments is:

The hypodermis is a subcutaneous layer rich in adipose and loose fibrous connective tissue.

The stratum granulosum is sometimes called the barrier layer of the skin.