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1
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Receptors

A

Are specialized nerve endings that make it possible for skin to act as a sense organ

2
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What do receptors do?

A

They relay messages to the brain of touch, pain, temperature and pressure

3
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What do krause end bulbs allow you to feel?

A

Low frequency vibrations

- fine touch

4
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What do free nerve endings allow you to feel?

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Pain

5
Q

What are 2 types of skin glands?

A
  1. Sudoriferous glands
    - sweat
  2. Sebaceous glands
    - oil
6
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What are 2 types of sudoriferous glands?

A
  1. Eccrine

2. Appocrine

7
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Eccrine

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Is the most numerous, important and widespread sweat gland

8
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What does eccrine produce?

A

Sweat

9
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How is sweat eliminated?

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Through pores

10
Q

What eccrine glands assist with?

A

Body heat regulation

11
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When do eccrine start working?

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Through your whole life

12
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Where do you find apocrine glands? (2)

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  1. Armpit

2. Genitalia

13
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What is the odor of apocrine glands caused by?

A

The breakdown of bacteria

14
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What does the apocrine gland include?

A

The ceruminous gland

- ear wax

15
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Where do you find sebaceous glands?

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Where ever hair grows

16
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What does sebaceous glands do?

A

They secrete oil for hair and skin

17
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When does the level of secretion of sebaceous glands increase?

A

During adolescence

18
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When do apocrine cells occur?

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Onset at puberty

19
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How is the amount of secretion by sebaceous glands regulated?

A

By sex hormones

20
Q

What forms blackheads?

A

Sebum in sebaceous gland ducts that darken

21
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What decreases with age, with sebaceous glands?

A

Secretion

22
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Ceruminous gland

A

Specialized sweat cell

23
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Where is the ceruminous gland located?

A

In the ear

24
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What does the ceruminous gland make?

A

Ear wax

- by mixing their secretions with sebum

25
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What does ear wax do?

A

Protects the skin of the ear canal from dehydration

26
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What can ear wax do?

A

Build up and may cause blockages

27
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Where is vitamin D produced?

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In the superficial layer of the skin

28
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Where is sexual hormones produced?

A

Deeper in the body

- under the skin

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