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Integumentary System (skin)
The Integumentary System includes the skin, hair and nails and is the human body's largest organ system.
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How does the skin regulate body temperatures?
Sweat glands in the skin produce perspiration (mostly water), which evaporates and carries heat away from the body - see "latent heat of evaporation".
What is the function of the capillaries in the dermis?
Every cell in your body has a capillary run by it. This capillary delivers nutrients and oxygen and removes waste and carbon dioxide.
Is the skin part of the urinary system?
First off, let's define the word "excretory"
Excretion is the process of eliminating waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials. It is an essential process in all forms of life. It contrasts secretion, where the substance may have specific tasks after leaving the cell
With that being said:
When you get hot, you sweat, sweat is an excretion - primarily made up of uric acid. Your skin, when you sweat is being cleansed at the same time as keeping you cool.
The sweat glands function as the excretory organs of the skin.
We sweat through our skins. The liquid that we release through the pours of our skin contains many toxins that are harmful to our body. This release of liquid is called excretion.
Yes it remves toxins from your body to mantain homeostasis by sweating which uses the endocrine and integumentary system.
What are the differences in structures of thick and thin skin?
stratum lucidum
How do chemicals affect the skin?
First, it make your skin all wrinkly, even when your young and you smoke a lot, you can tell how people smoke or not by the colors of their fingernails. If the fingernails are yellow-ish, that means they were smoking and probably still smoke today. If there fingernails are not yellow, then they are nonsmokers.
What are the characteristics of the epidermis?
The characteristics of the epidermis help it in playing its role. It has a thick protective layer and it also has tight junctions within the epithelial cells.
How does a wasp sting affect your skin?
If your skin were to be stung by a wasp, the stinger would be pulled out of the wasp, and into your skin, which has poison in it, which would mean, poison would be injected into your body.
Dead skin cells are shed in thick sheets because the strong links are held together by?
a thin layer of proteoglycan reinforced by intermediate filaments.
What is the lower portion of skin?
Human skin is composed of three layers. The top layer is the epidermis, the middle layer is the dermis and the lower portion of the skin is the lower dermis.
Sharklet is a new technology that inhibits the growth of bacteria. A Florida-based company called Sharklet Technologies is bringing the technology to market. Sharklet is actually a microscopic pattern that may be imprinted onto films or manufactured directly onto the surface of objects themselves. This pattern creates an energetically unstable surface that results an inhospitable environment for bacteria. When bacteria come in contact with the surface they simply die because the energy to live and reproduce is too great.
Sharklet is inspired by the microbe resistant properties of shark skin. Sharks have a unique ability to stay clean of algae and barnacles in the ocean because the shape of their denticles. These denticles are arranged in a specific pattern that account for its microbial resistance.
Finally, it's worth noting that because Sharklet doesn't kill bacteria to inhibit its growth - it doesn't contribute to the serious and growing problem of bacterial resistance. Years and years of using kill technologies (antibiotics, disinfectants, etc.) have made bacteria stronger. Sharklet is a welcome alternative because it does not kill bacteria in order to inhibit its growth.
Learn more about Sharklet at www.sharklet.com.
Why doesn't skin cancer arise from the stratum corneum?
Skin cancer doesn't arise from the stratum corneum because that layer of the epidermis is composed mainly of dead cells that do not have a blood supply for cancer cells to use.
Foremost the Stratum Corneum is the top layer of the Epidermis, a cutaneous membrane. It is to be noted that the Stratum Corneum consists of 25-30 layers of non-dividing or dead cells. Therefore this environment does not accomodate the malignant cancer cells that depend on a living healthy area in which to chronically divide.
What is the difference between malleus and malleolus?
Malleus means ossicles(tiny bones in the middle ear, and malleolus means one of the processes on the distal tibia and fibula
Is skin the made of connective tissue?
yes...well put it this way.....the skin is made up of many, many cells that become one that form a tissue...so are your organs...i am only in jr. high but i am sure that my answer has the slightest effect on what you have to say :)
What is a the consequence of a congenital absence of eccrine gland?
inability to regulate body temperature
What happens if you apply deodorant to broken skin?
It stings really badly!! As the skin is broken the fresh skin underneath is raw and so when you put something on it, as it is not used to it it will be painful.
*WARNING: DO NOT TRY IT!*
What is the tincture of iodine test on your skin?
I am trying this myself, today. Use a 3 inch by 3 inch square of skin (best if not visible), paint with the wand that comes in the bottle of tincture of iodine. If it fades away in less than 12 hours, then it is likely you may need iodine added to your diet. Read: http://www.noaw.com/Iodine%20Def/tincture_of_iodine.htm
Good Luck!
What do humans constantly make on your fingertips and skin?
Humans constantly make oil on the fingertips and other parts of the skin.
