Structures of the Dermis and Hypodermis

Sense heavy touch, such as pressure and vibrations

Pacinian corpuscles

“Skin nipples”

Dermal papillae

Absorbs shock and cushions our body as we move about

Adipose tissue

Contracts to raise hair on end

Arrector pili muscles

Drops off blood filled with oxygen and nutrients to the skin

Artery (or capillary loops)

Sense light touch

Meissner’s corpuscles

Tunnel that hair grows out from

Hair follicle

Sends messages from the sensory structures in the skin to the brain

Sensory nerve

Flexibly binds the skin to underlying muscle tissue

Adipose tissue

Ridges that bind the epidermis and dermis together

Dermal papillae

Takes away blood filled with carbon dioxide and waste from the skin

Vein

Oil glands

Sebaceous glands

Insulates body heat

Adipose tissue

Narrow blood vessels in the dermis that deliver blood and remove blood

Capillary loops

Sends messages from the brain to muscles and glands in the skin

Motor nerve

Sweat glands

Sudoriferous glands

Create fingerprints

Dermal papillae

Sense pain, heat, cold, itching, and tickling

Free nerve ending