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The less numerous type of sweat gland; produces a secretion containing water, salts, proteins, and fatty acids.
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Apocrine sweat gland
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Tiny, smooth muscles attached to hair follicles; contraction causes the hair to stand upright
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Arrector Pili
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Baldness
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Alopecia
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Tissue damage inflicted by intense heat, electricity, radiation, or certain chemicals, all of which denature cell proteins and cause cell death in the affected areas.
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Burn
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Layer of skin deep to epidermis; composed mostly of dense irregular connective tissue.
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Dermis
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Yellow to orange pigment that accumulates in the statum corneum epidermal layer and in fatty tissue of the hypodermis.
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Carotene
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Receptors located throughout the skin that respond to stimuli arising outside the body; part of the nervous system.
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Cutaneos Sensory Receptors
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Sweat glands abundant on the palms, soles of feet, and the forehead.
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Eccrine glands
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Superficial layer of the skin; composed of keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
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Epidermis
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A burn in which only the epidermis is damaged
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First-degree Burn
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Structure with outer and inner root sheaths extending from the epidermal surface into the dermis and from which new hair develops.
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Hair Follicle
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Skin and its derivatives; provides the external protective covering of the body.
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Integumentary System
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Fibrous protein found in the epidermis, hair, and nails that makes those structures hard and water resilient
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Keratin
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Life threatening; pertains to neoplasms that spread and lead to death, such as cancer.
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Malignant
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Cancer of the melanocytes; can begin wherever there is pigment.
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Malignant Melanoma
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Dark pigment formed by cells called melanocytes; imparts color to skin and hair.
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Melanin
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Small, nipple-like projection
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Papilla
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The surface opening of the duct of a sweat gland.
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Pore
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Method of computing the extent of burns by dividing the body into a number of areas, each accounting for 9% (ora multiple thereof) of the total body area.
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Rule of Nines
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Epidermal glands that produces an oily secretion caled sebum
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Sebaceous Glands (oil glands)
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Oily secretion of sebaceous glands
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Sebum
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A burn in which the epidermis and the upper region of the dermis are damaged.
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Second-degree burn
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Epidermal gland that produces sweat.
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Sudoriferous gland
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Located close to or on the body surface.
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Superficial
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Epidermal gland that produces sweat.
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Sweat Gland
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A burn that involves the entire thickness of the skin; also called a full-thickness burn. Usually requires skin grafting.
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Third-degree burn
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Subcutaneous tissue just deep to the skin; consists of adipose plus some areolar connective tissue.
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Hypodermis
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