APPLIED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, 4TH EDITION
2026 EXAM REVIEW SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ What is the dermis composed of?
Answer: Fibrous connective tissue with nerve endings, blood
vessels, sensory nerve endings, hair follicles, and glands.
◉ What are the 2 types of sweat glands?
Answer: ecrine & apocrine
◉ What do ecrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
◉ What do apocrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm from cells, attracting
bacteria that produces body odor.
◉ What do sebaceous glands secrete?
,Answer: They secrete sebum through the hair follicles, which
lubricates the skin and prevents drying.
◉ What secretion produces oil?
Answer: Holocrine secretion.
◉ What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence?
Answer: Becoming clogged and attracting bacteria.
◉ What protein composes the hair and skin?
Answer: Keratin
◉ What makes the body's framework?
Answer: Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
◉ What are the functions of the skeletal system?
Answer: Support, movement, blood cell formation, protection of
internal organs, detoxification, muscle attachment, mineral storage.
*A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
◉ How are bones classified?
Answer: By shape.
, Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*
◉ What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone?
Answer: Osteoblasts
◉ What occurs to osteoblasts when they become fixed in the dense
bone matrix?
Answer: They stop dividing but continue to maintain body tissues as
osteocytes.
◉ How many bones make up the axial skeleton?
Answer: 28 bones of the skull. 14-facial, 14-cranium.
◉ How many bones make the facial skeleton?
Answer: 2 nasal bones
2 maxillary bones
2 zygomatic bones
2026 EXAM REVIEW SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ What is the dermis composed of?
Answer: Fibrous connective tissue with nerve endings, blood
vessels, sensory nerve endings, hair follicles, and glands.
◉ What are the 2 types of sweat glands?
Answer: ecrine & apocrine
◉ What do ecrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
◉ What do apocrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm from cells, attracting
bacteria that produces body odor.
◉ What do sebaceous glands secrete?
,Answer: They secrete sebum through the hair follicles, which
lubricates the skin and prevents drying.
◉ What secretion produces oil?
Answer: Holocrine secretion.
◉ What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence?
Answer: Becoming clogged and attracting bacteria.
◉ What protein composes the hair and skin?
Answer: Keratin
◉ What makes the body's framework?
Answer: Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
◉ What are the functions of the skeletal system?
Answer: Support, movement, blood cell formation, protection of
internal organs, detoxification, muscle attachment, mineral storage.
*A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
◉ How are bones classified?
Answer: By shape.
, Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*
◉ What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone?
Answer: Osteoblasts
◉ What occurs to osteoblasts when they become fixed in the dense
bone matrix?
Answer: They stop dividing but continue to maintain body tissues as
osteocytes.
◉ How many bones make up the axial skeleton?
Answer: 28 bones of the skull. 14-facial, 14-cranium.
◉ How many bones make the facial skeleton?
Answer: 2 nasal bones
2 maxillary bones
2 zygomatic bones
