Deck 11: Integumentary System

Question 1

Acne is a disorder associated with ________.

A) sweat glands
B) sebaceous glands
C) merocrine
D) mammary glands

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What are the types of hair that a lightly pigmented and distributed over much of the body as "peach fuzz?"

A) arrector pili
B) intermediate
C) vellus
D) terminal

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following are the two types of sudoriferous (sweat) glands?

A) mammary and sebaceous
B) eccrine and apocrine
C) mammary and merocrine
D) sebaceous and merocrine

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Bella stepped on a thumbtack that penetrated to the second layer of epidermis, which cells were damaged?

A) spinosum
B) lucidum
C) basale
D) granulosum

Question 5

The dermis ________.

A) lacks sensory corpuscles and glands
B) is where melanocytes are found
C) has two layers
D) is avascular

Question 6

If a needle pierced your forearm, what is the order of epidermal layers the needle would pass through?

A) basale, spinosum, granulosum, lucidum, corneum
B) granulosum, basale, spinosum, corneum
C) basale, spinosum, granulosum, corneum
D) corneum, granulosum, spinosum, basale

Question 7

The papillary layer of the dermis consists of areolar tissue containing numerous collagen and elastic fibers. Folds in the tissue are called ________.

A) dermal papillae
B) hair follicles
C) sebaceous glands
D) reticular papillae

Question 8

Which of the following layers of the epidermis is responsible for cell division and replacement?

A) stratum spinosum
B) stratum basale
C) stratum corneum
D) stratum granulosum

Question 9

What is the whitish portion of the proximal nail body where blood vessels do not show?

A) nail root
B) eponychium
C) lunula
D) nail body

Question 10

Which muscles attached to hair follicles cause "gooseflesh?"

A) arrector pili
B) arrector folliculi
C) arrector integument
D) skeletal muscle

Question 11

In thick skin, what is the extra layer of cells in the epidermis?

A) stratum lucidum
B) stratum basale
C) stratum corneum
D) stratum granulosum

Question 12

Keratinocytes are important cells in the epidermis because they ________.

A) take about 2-3 days to migrate to the surface of the skin
B) protect the skin from UV rays
C) produce a fibrous protein that gives the skin protective properties
D) are able to reproduce sporadically as needed

Question 13

What is the pigment that protects deeper cells of the skin from harmful UV radiation?

A) melanocytes
B) keratinocytes
C) melanin
D) keratin

Question 14

Which of the following is a skin receptor for touch?

A) tactile
B) free nerve ending
C) lamellated corpuscles
D) Pacinian corpuscles

Question 15

Which type of burn destroys the entire epidermis and portions of the dermis but does not injure hair follicles and gland in the dermis?

A) third-degree burn
B) fourth-degree burn
C) first-degree burn
D) second-degree burn