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What are the major components of the integumentary system?


skin, hair, nails, glands, and some nerve endings


What function of the skin is concerned with regulating body temperature?


thermoregulation




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What does the integumentary system do to reduce heat loss?


shunt blood away
from the capillaries
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erect hairs to trap
insulating air




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What is the act of erecting hairs of the skin called?


piloerection


(Note: goosebumps, the piloerection reflex, can occur when cold in response to
stress/emotion. The response is believed to be a vestigial reflex that may have been used to
make ancestors appear larger to scare off predators)


What function of the skin is concerned with being a physical barrier to abrasion, bacteria,
dehydration, many chemicals, and UV radiation?


protection


What function of the skin is concerned with gathering information about the environment by
sensing temperature, pressure, pain, and touch?


collecting environmental sensory input


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What function of the skin is concerned with excreting water and salts through the skin, and
independent of sweating, we diffuse water out via insensible fluid loss?


excretion




What function of the skin is concerned with using specialized cells of the epidermis as
components of the immune system?


immunity


What function of the skin is concerned with making the vessels in the dermis hold up to 10%
of the blood in a resting adult?


blood reservior


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