Integumentary System Vocabulary Part 1

The skin and all of its appendages

• Integumentary System

• Cutaneous Membrane

• Serous Membrane

• Mucocutaneous Junction

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-2

Another name for the skin

• Integument

• Membrane

• Pleura

• Epidermis

Any sheetlike structure that is anatomically simple but functionally important.

• Membrane

• Dermis

• Melanin

• Integument

Membranes composed of epithelial tissue and underlying connective tissue

• Epithelial Membranes

• Connective Tissue Membranes

• Cyanosis

• Subcutaneous tissue

Membranes composed exclusively of types of connective tissue with no epithelial cells present at all.

• Connective Tissue Membranes

• Epithelial Membranes

• Intgument

• Serous Membranes

"The skin"; membrane which is the primary organ of the integumentary system.

• Cutaneous membrane

• Serous Membrane

• Synovial Membrane

• Mucous Membrane

Membrane that lines body cavities and covers the surface of organs.

• Cutaneous membrane

• Serous Membrane

• Synovial Membrane

• Mucous Membrane

Membranes that line body surfaces opening directly to the exterior; produce a thick, slimy material

• Cutaneous membrane

• Serous Membrane

• Synovial Membrane

• Mucous Membrane

Membranes that line the spaces between bones and joints that move.

• Cutaneous membrane

• Serous Membrane

• Synovial Membrane

• Mucous Membrane

Membrane that is found lining the walls of a cavity.

• Parietal portion of serous membrane

• Visceral portion of serous membrane

• Mucous Membrane

• Synovial Membrane