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What epithelium is found on the skin around the mouth?
Answer: Keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
2. What are the four major tissue types?
Answer: Epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue, nervous tissue
3. What are the three parts of a neuron?
Answer: Cell body, dendrites, axon
5. What is the function of the axon?
Answer: Sends signals away from the cell body
4. What is the function of dendrites?
Answer: Receive signals
6. What is the function of the cell body of a neuron?
Answer: Contains the nucleus and maintains the neuron
7. What is the visible hard part of the fingernail called?
Answer: Nail plate
8. What part of the fingernail produces new nail cells?
Answer: Nail matrix
9. What is the white crescent-shaped area of the fingernail?
Answer: Lunula
10. What is the skin fold covering the base of the nail called?
Answer: Eponychium (cuticle)
11. What is the skin underneath the nail plate called?
Answer: Nail bed
12. What is the area underneath the free edge of the nail called?
Answer: free edge
13. What is the hidden part of the nail where growth begins?
Answer: Nail root
14. What is the visible part of the hair above the skin?
Answer: Hair shaft
15. What is the part of the hair below the skin?
Answer: hair shaft
16. What is the enlarged base of the hair follicle?
Answer: Hair bulb
17. What part of the hair follicle produces new hair cells?
Answer: Hair matrix
18. What structure provides nutrients to growing hair and is at the bulb of the hair follicle?
Answer: Dermal papilla
19. What muscle causes the hair to stand up (goosebumps)?
Answer: Arrector pili muscle
20. What gland produces oil that lubricates hair?
Answer: Sebaceous gland
21. What is the outermost layer of the skin?
Answer: Epidermis
22. What is the deeper layer of the skin?
Answer: Dermis
23. What is the function of the epidermis?
Answer: Protection and preventing water loss
24. What protein helps make the epidermis protective?
Answer: Keratin
25. What cells in the epidermis produce pigment?
Answer: Melanocytes
26. What is the function of the dermis?
Answer: Provides support, sensation, and contains skin structures
27. What structures are found in the dermis?
Answer: Blood vessels, nerves, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, hair follicles