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 Hair Shaft |
Grow from hair follicles in the dermis and hypodermis. Every hair shaft has a root(under skin), and a shaft (extends from follicle).
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 Sweat Pore |
Allows loss of fluid to help regulate the bodoies temperature.
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 Dermal Papillae |
Brings food and oxygen to the lower layers of epidermal cells. Nourishes every hair follicle.
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 Meissner's Corpuscle |
Penetrates the nerve cells.They also contain spiral nerve fibrils which innervate tissure throughout the body.
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 Free Nerve Ending |
Cover the whole skin. Record sensations (especially pain). Also located in the cornea where they inform the eye of touch and pressure.
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Recticular Layer of the Dermis
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Deepest skin layer. Contains blood vessels, sweat and oil glands, and deep pressure receptors called pacinian.
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 Sebacrous Gland |
Secretes sebu, (oil) into the hair follicle providing a lubricant for the hair and skin.
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Arrector Pili Muscle
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Smooth muscle of the skin. Attached to hair follicle just below its oil gland and reacts in response to cold and other stimuli.
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Sensory Nerve Fiber
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Convey impulses to the central nervous system from sensory receptors located in various parts of the body.
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Eccrine Sweat Gland
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All of the body and are more numerous. They produce sweat.
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Pacinian Corpuscle
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Present in the skin and some moucous membranes. Mechanoceptors, responding to pressure.
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Artery
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Muscular wall of the artery helps the heart to pump blood. When the heart relaxes the artery contracts.
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 Vein |
Any of the tubular branching vessels that carrie blood from the capillaries toward the heart.
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Adipose Tissue
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Connective tissue in which fat is stored and which has the cells distended by droplets of fat.
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Hair Follicle
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A sac from which a hair grows and into which the sebaceous glands open. Its lined by cells derived from the epidermal layer of skin.
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