MILADY ESTHETICS FINAL EXAM TEST
BANK PRACTICE QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS VERIFIED
●● What is NOT an element of the skins acid mantle?
Answer: Blood
●● What causes injured skin to restore itself to its normal thickness?
Answer: Hyperproduction of cells
●● What are the items in the dermis that respond to touch, pain, cold,
heat and pressure?
Answer: Sensory nerve endings
●● What are most abundant in the fingertips, as opposed to other parts
of the body?
Answer: Sensory nerve fibers
●● What is the average internal temperature of the body in degrees
Fahrenheit?
Answer: 98.6
,●● Why does the body perspire?
Answer: To protect us from overheating
●● What are follicles?
Answer: Tubelike openings in the epidermis
●● What is not a compound in the body from which free radicals take
electrons?
Answer: Sebum
●● What is Glycation?
Answer: The binding of a protein molecule to a glucose molecule
●● What are hair papillae?
Answer: Cone shaped elevations at the base of the follicle
●● Where in the body is hyaluronic acid found?
Answer: Skin
●● What is hydrolipidic film?
Answer: Oil-water balance that protects the skins surface
,●● What is a fiber protein found in skin, hail and nails?
Answer: Keratin
●● What is the acid mantle?
Answer: Protective layer of lipids and secretions on the skins surface
●● Where in the body are the coiled structures known as apocrine glands
found?
Answer: Underarm and genitals
●● What is the result of the contraction of the arrector pili muscle?
Answer: Goose bumps
●● What does the skins barrier function protect us from, in addition to
irritation?
Answer: Intercellular water loss
●● What are Ceramides?
Answer: Glycolipid materials
●● What is collagen?
Answer: Fibrous tissue made from protein
, ●● What are corneocytes?
Answer: Hardened keratinocytes
●● What are membranes of ridges and grooves that attach to the
epidermis?
Answer: Dermal papillae
●● Where in the face does the chronic condition rosacea primarily
appear?
Answer: Cheeks and nose
●● What protects the surface of the skin?
Answer: Sebaceous glands
●● What are guard cells of the immune system that sense unrecognized
foreign invaders, such as bacteria?
Answer: Langerhans immune cells
●● What is oil that provides protection for the epidermis from external
factors and that lubricates both the skin and hair?
Answer: Sebum
●● What is the common name for the stratum corneum?
BANK PRACTICE QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS VERIFIED
●● What is NOT an element of the skins acid mantle?
Answer: Blood
●● What causes injured skin to restore itself to its normal thickness?
Answer: Hyperproduction of cells
●● What are the items in the dermis that respond to touch, pain, cold,
heat and pressure?
Answer: Sensory nerve endings
●● What are most abundant in the fingertips, as opposed to other parts
of the body?
Answer: Sensory nerve fibers
●● What is the average internal temperature of the body in degrees
Fahrenheit?
Answer: 98.6
,●● Why does the body perspire?
Answer: To protect us from overheating
●● What are follicles?
Answer: Tubelike openings in the epidermis
●● What is not a compound in the body from which free radicals take
electrons?
Answer: Sebum
●● What is Glycation?
Answer: The binding of a protein molecule to a glucose molecule
●● What are hair papillae?
Answer: Cone shaped elevations at the base of the follicle
●● Where in the body is hyaluronic acid found?
Answer: Skin
●● What is hydrolipidic film?
Answer: Oil-water balance that protects the skins surface
,●● What is a fiber protein found in skin, hail and nails?
Answer: Keratin
●● What is the acid mantle?
Answer: Protective layer of lipids and secretions on the skins surface
●● Where in the body are the coiled structures known as apocrine glands
found?
Answer: Underarm and genitals
●● What is the result of the contraction of the arrector pili muscle?
Answer: Goose bumps
●● What does the skins barrier function protect us from, in addition to
irritation?
Answer: Intercellular water loss
●● What are Ceramides?
Answer: Glycolipid materials
●● What is collagen?
Answer: Fibrous tissue made from protein
, ●● What are corneocytes?
Answer: Hardened keratinocytes
●● What are membranes of ridges and grooves that attach to the
epidermis?
Answer: Dermal papillae
●● Where in the face does the chronic condition rosacea primarily
appear?
Answer: Cheeks and nose
●● What protects the surface of the skin?
Answer: Sebaceous glands
●● What are guard cells of the immune system that sense unrecognized
foreign invaders, such as bacteria?
Answer: Langerhans immune cells
●● What is oil that provides protection for the epidermis from external
factors and that lubricates both the skin and hair?
Answer: Sebum
●● What is the common name for the stratum corneum?
