What is melanin? - Answer- Gives our skin its color.
What is keratine? - Answer- Gives skin a yellow undertone.
What is another name for the dermis? - Answer- True skin or Living layer
What is the stratum corneum? - Answer- Over most layer. Protects and sheds
What is the stratum lucidum? - Answer- Only found on our palms and soles. Lets light through.
What is the stratum granulosum? - Answer- Helps the cells die.
What is the stratum spinosum? - Answer- First line of defense.
What is the stratum basal layer? (germinitivum) - Answer- Produces melanocytes which gives skin its color.
What is the papilary layer? - Answer- Gives our skin elasticity.
What is the reticular layer? - Answer- Thickest and largest layer of the skin.
What is the subcutaneous layer? - Answer- Deepest layer.
What is adipose tissue? - Answer- Fat tissue.
What does "phases" stand for? - Answer- Protection, Heat Regulation, Absorption, Sense, Excretion, Secretion.
What are afferent neurons? - Answer- Sensory neurons.
What are efferent neurons? - Answer- Motor neurons.
Where are apocrine pheromones located? - Answer- Armpits and groin.
What are eccrine glands? - Answer- All over the body, but mostly on forehead, soles of the feet, and palms.
What is krause? - Answer- Cold.
What is ruffini? - Answer- Heat.
What are merckle cells? - Answer- Allow the skin to feel soft touch.
What are pacinian cells? - Answer- Allow skin to feel pressure and vibration. What are MAST cells? - Answer- Keep blood vessels expanded.
What are meissner's corpuscles? - Answer- Touch receptors.
What is the pituitary gland? - Answer- Master gland, tells other glands to release hormones.
What is your thyroid gland? - Answer- Produces hormones that regulate metabolism,
body heat, and bone growth.
What is your parathyroid gland? - Answer- Controls the amount of calcium in our bones.
What is the adrenal cortex? - Answer- Outer portion of the adrenal gland.
What is the pancreas? - Answer- Breaks down sugars, fats, and starches.
What is the adrenal medulla? - Answer- Gives you adrenaline and makes you sweat?
What endocrine gland will stimulate exocrine? - Answer- Adrenal medulla.
What does PCOS cause? - Answer- Infertility, hair growth, and irregular periods.
What is hypertrichosis? - Answer- Excessive hair growth.
What is idiopathic hirsutism? - Answer- No cause or reason for hair growth.
What is iatric hirsutism? - Answer- Drug induced hair growth.
What are the 3 layers of the hair? - Answer- Cuticle, cortex, medulla.
What is the hardest bacteria to kill? - Answer- Endospores.
How long does a hepatitis b vaccination last? - Answer- 15 years.
How do electrons flow? - Answer- From negative to positive.
What is anaphoresis? - Answer- Irritated skin.
What is the wavelength of yag? - Answer- 1064nm
What is the wavelength of diode? - Answer- 810nm
What is the wavelength of alex? - Answer- 755nm
What is the wavelength of ruby? - Answer- 694nm
What is lye? - Answer- Salt, oxygen, and hydrogen.