Integument

Which vitamin is synthesized by the skin?

• A

• E

• K

• D

Goosebumps are caused by contractions of the ______ muscle

• Arrector pili

• Apocrine

• Eccrine

• Sebaceous

The sweat gland that produces "stinky" sweat is the 

• Apocrine gland

• Eccrine gland

• Sudoriferous gland

• Sebaceous gland

Glands located throughout the body that secrete sweat directly onto the skin's surface, which helps control body temperature

• Eccrine glands

• Apocrine glands

• Ceruminous gland

• Sebaceous gland

A sheath of epideris surrounding each hair

• Hair follicle

• Keratin

• Melanin

• Stratum basale

A tough, fibrous protein that provides structureal strength to the skin hair and nails

• Melanin

• Keratin

• Dermis

• Insulin

Pigment produces by melanocytes that gives color ot the hair and skin

• Keratin

• Dermis

• Melanin

• Epidermis

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Glands that secrete an oily substance called sebum into each hair follicle

• Sebaceous gland

• Apocrine gland

• Eccrine gland

• Ceruminous gland

the pearly coloured and crescent shaped is due to the cells being pushed closely together, the blood capillaries cannot be seen through the lunula because of this.

• Cuticle

• Free edge

• Lunula

• Matrix

- the part of the nail where the nail plate rests on, also a continuation of the matrix. It is abundantly supplied with blood vessels and nerves, having numerous parallel ridges which

• Free edge

• Nail Plate

• Nail walls

• Nail bed