Skin Structure, Growth, & Nutrition Milady

A physician who specializes in diseases and disorders of the skin, hair, and nails is...

• a histologist

• a dermatologist

• an esthetician

• a pediatrician

Healthy skin has ________ texture and is smooth.

• a fine-grained

• a dry

• a rough

• an inflexible

Appendages of the skin include hair, nails, and sudoriferous and ____________ glands.

• sebaceous

• endocrine

• adrenal

• exocrine

Which of the following correctly identifies the layers of the skin and fat from the outermost layer to the innermost layer?

• Dermis, subcutaneous, epidermis

• Epidermis, subcutaneous, dermis

• Dermis, epidermis, subcutaneous

• Epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous

As cells die they are pushed to the surface to replace dead cells that are shed from the ____________.

• stratum corneum

• stratum lucidum

• stratum germinativum

• stratum granulosum

The layer directly beneath the epidermis is the _____________.

• reticular layer

• stratum spinosum

• papillary layer

• subcutaneous tissue

What type of tissue gives smoothness and contour to the body, contains fats for use as energy, and also acts as a protective cushion for the skin?

• subcutaneous layer

• cardiac tissue

• muscle tissue

• nerve tissue

Which nerve fibers are distributed to the arrector pili muscles attached to the hair follicles?

• Impulse nerve fibers

• Sensory nerve fibers

• Secretory nerve fibers

• Motor nerve fibers

Nerves that regulate the excretion of perspiration from the sudoriferous glands and control the flow of sebum to the surface of the skin are...

• motor nerve fibers

• sensory nerve fibers

• secretory nerve fibers

• impulse nerve fibers

__________ fibers react to heat, cold, touch, pressure, and pain.

• motor nerve

• sensory nerve

• secretory nerve

• complex nerve