Quiz: Integumentary System

which skin region provides insulation, cushioning, and energy storage?

Hypodermis

Meissner’s corpuscles which detect light touch are found where?

At the tips of the dermal papillae

The hypodermis contains both loose areolar CT and what?

Adipose tissue

What do the foamy clustered cells that are attached to a hair follicle belong to?

Sebaceous glands

What are the large onion like structures deep in the dermis?

Pacinian corpuscles

In thick skin, which stratum would you find a single deepest row of cells resting on the basement membrane?

Stratum basale

What is the name of the location where a hair grows within an invaginated epithelial tube?

Hair follicle

What do merocrine sweat glands secrete watery sweat directly to?

Onto the surface via ducts