What are five functions of the skin?

Answer 1

1. To protect and support internal structures.

2. Maintain the body's temperature and health (homeostasis).

3. Cushion internal structures.

4. Act as a shield to diseases and foreign objects.

Answer 2

1) Protection - your first line of bodily defense from the external environment.

2) Sensation - your nerve endings react to touch, pressure, heat, cold, vibration and tissue injury.

3) Heat Regulation - this skin function regulates body temperature through sebaceous glands.

4) Storage and Synthesis - acts as a storage center for lipids and water as well as a means of synthesis of vitamin D and B by action of Ultra Violet light on certain parts of the skin.

5) Excretion - an important skin function that eliminates urea when you sweat.

6) Absorption - Oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide enter your skin in small amounts. Because of this, medicine by ointments and patches are used by doctors. Cosmetic and Skin Care products can also enter the skin and penetrate the bloodstream this way.

Answer 3

Five of the major functions of the skin are:

• protection against disease ( it acts as a first defense against disease causing particles, due to the fact most cant get through unopened skin)
• sensory response (specialized nerve cells sense and relay info to the brain)
• formation of vitamin D (formed by ultraviolet light in fat molecules in your epidermis)
• maintaining body temperature ( blood vessels in the skin can help to hold or release heat maintaining a constant temperature)
• waste exchange (sweat glands in the skin release waste in the sweat)

The skin

covers and protects the body from infection, injury, and water loss.

Regulates body temperature and maintains homeostasis

Eliminates wastes

Produces vitamin D

Gathers information about its environment

Answer 4

The function of the skin is to protect the organs in the body as will as to keep the body warm.

Answer 5

1.covers and protects the body

2. regulate body temperature

3.eliminates waste

4.gather into about environment

5.produce vitamin D

Answer 6

First of all you are right there are exactly 5 important functions of the skin here they are.....

1.cells

2.vains

3.blood vessels

4.bones

5.organs

Answer 7

sensitivity

protection

production of heat during cold

manufacture of vitamin d

regulation of temperature

helps reduce water loss by evaporation

Answer 8

1. Protection

2. Sensation

3. Metabolic Functions

4. Reservoir

5. Body Temperature Regulation

6. Excretion