Chapter 05

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Integumentary System
 Chapter 5-Integumentary System
• What does
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covering
Hairs

Epidermis

• Components:
Sebaceous
Skin
– skin gland

– hair Arrector pili

(smooth muscle)
Dermis

Hair follicle

– nails Nerve
Vein

– glands Artery
Sweat gland
Subcutaneous tissue
(hypodermis)
Adipose tissue

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 Skin

Epidermis Dermis Hypodermis

 Functions
1. Protection:
water loss, microbes, UV light

2. Sensation:
hot, cold, pain, pressure

3. Temperature regulation:
helps maintain homeostasis

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4. Excretion:
removes waste

5. Vitamin D production:
UV light stimulates production

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 Skin Facts
• Weighs 9 lbs.

• Used to determine body fat

• 2 main regions: epidermis and dermis

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 Skin of Finger

Epidermis Dermis
Thin Skin

Thick Skin
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Epidermis
 Epidermis
• 1st major skin region (outside)

• Composed of stratified squamous epithelium

• Keratinization:
- process in which new cells (with keratin) push
old cells to surface
- 40-56 days for new cells to reach surface

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 Strata of Epidermis
• Stratum corneum:
- outermost layer of epidermis
- 20-30 layers of dead squamous cells filled with
keratin
- accounts for 75% of epidermal thickness
- dandruff is this layer flaking off scalp

• Callus:
forms when stratum corneum has frequent friction
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• Stratum basale:
- deepest layer of epidermis

- single layer of cells

- firmly attached to dermis

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Dermis
 Dermis
• 2nd major skin region
• Dense connective tissue
• Contains collagen and elastic fibers
• Contains fibroblasts, nerve endings, smooth
muscle, glands, blood vessels, and hair follicles
• Cleavage lines:
- area where skin is most resistant to stretching
- due to orientation of collagen fibers
- important in scarring
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 Layers of Dermis
• Papillary layer:
- thin connective tissue layer that contains blood
vessels
- Dermal papillae:
-projections that extend up into epidermis
-remove waste and help regulate body temp.
-ridged on hands and feet (fingerprints)
-pattern is genetically determined

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• Reticular layer:
- deepest layer of dermis

- accounts for 80% of dermis

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Hypodermis
 Hypodermis
• Below dermis
• Foundation of skin
• Attaches skin to underlying muscle and bone
• Contains loose and adipose tissue
• Contains ½ of body’s fat
• Body fat for females 20-23%, males 13-25%

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 Skin Color and Variations
• Determined by:
- pigments
- genetics
- blood circulation
- thickness of stratum corneum

• Melanocytes of darker skinned people produce

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 Skin Pigments
• Melanin:
- produced by melanocytes
- ranges from yellow to reddish-brown to black
- responsible for hair and eye color
- provides protection against UV light
- amt. produced determined by genetics, UV light,
hormones
- freckles are accumulation of melanin
- albinism is absence of melanin
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• Carotene:
- yellow-orange pigment found in plants
- accumulates in stratum corneum

• Hemoglobin:
- gives pinkish-red color
- found in red blood cells

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 Tanning and Sunburns
• Exposure to UV light stimulates melanocytes to
increase production of melanin
• Melanin builds up to help protect skin against UV
radiation (tan)
• A sunburn is the skin reacting to UV exposure
• UV light causes elastic fibers to clump and become
leathery
• UV light can alter DNA in cells causing them to
mutate (cancer)
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 Skin Color and Disease
• Redness:
fever, hypertension, inflammation, allergies
• Pallor:
anemia or low blood pressure
• Jaundice:
liver disorder (yellow)
• Bronzing:
Addison’s disease (kidney disease)
• Bruising:
broken blood vessels
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Hair
 Hair Components
• Hair/shaft:
flexible strands of keratinized cells

• Root:
below skin (scalp)

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• Hair Bulb:
- base of root
- where hair is produced

• Hair Follicle:
- group of cells that surround root and bulb
- gives hair different shapes

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 How is Hair Produced?
• Hair is produced in hair bulb

• Hair bulb rests on blood vessels to supply it with

nutrients

• Hair grows longer as cells are added to base of

hair bulb

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 Hair Facts
• Testosterone and good nutrition promote hair growth
• Growth occurs in cycles: active and resting
• Scalp hair grows for 3 years and rests for 1 year
• Eyelashes grow for 30 days and rest for 105 days
• We lose about 90 scalp hairs/day
• Grey hair is the loss or fading of melanin
• Male pattern baldness is from the loss of the hair
follicle

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 Hair Muscles
• Arrector Pili:
- smooth muscle that surrounds each hair
follicle

- contracts and hair stands on end

(goose bumps)

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 Glands
• Sebaceous glands:
- connected to hair follicle
- sebum: oily substance that lubricates hair and
skin to prevent drying

• Eccrine sweat glands:

- all over body and open into sweat pores
- water and salt secretions

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• Apocrine sweat glands:
- open into hair follicle

- only in armpits and genitalia

- thick, rich secretions

- become active during puberty and cause

body odor

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Sweat pores
Duct of eccrine
sweat gland

Duct of Arrector pili

apocrine (smooth muscle)
sweat gland
Hair follicle Sebaceous gland

Eccrine
sweat gland
Hair bulb

Apocrine
sweat gland
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 Nails

Free edge Nail body Eponychium

Nail root Nail matrix

 Nails

• What are they?

thin plate with layers of dead stratum
corneum cells with hard keratin

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 Nail Structure
• Nail body:
visual part

• Nail root:
covered by skin

• Cuticle:
stratum corneum that extends into nail body

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• Nail matrix:
- continuation of nail root
- gives rises to most of nail
• Nail bed:
attaches to nail and is distal to nail matrix
• Lunula:
- part of nail matrix
- whitish, crescent shaped area
- base of nail

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 Vitamin D Production
1. UV light causes skin to produce a precursor
molecule of vitamin D
2. Precursor is carried by blood to liver where it
is modified
3. Next to kidneys where it is modified again to
form active vitamin D
• Vitamin D can also be ingested through fish
oils, fortified milk, eggs, and butter.
• Vitamin D stimulates intestine to absorb
calcium and phosphate (bone growth and
muscle function)
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 Temperature Regulation
• Body temp. should be 98.6oC
• Rate of chemical reactions (metabolism) is
altered by changes in temp.
• To cool body:
blood vessels in dermis dilate and heat is
transferred from deep in tissues to skin and
sweat is produced
• Too heat body:
blood vessels constrict to reduce blood flow to
skin and heat is retained
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 Aging and the Integument
• Blood flow decreases and skin becomes thinner
due to decreased amounts of collagen

• Decreased activity of sebaceous and sweat

glands make temperature regulation more
difficult

• Loss of elastic fibers cause skin to sag and

wrinkle
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 Classification of Burns
• 1st degree:
- damages only epidermis
- redness, slight swelling, pain
- heals within 2-3 days (usually no scar)
- includes sunburns or exposure to cold

• 2nd degree:
- damages epidermis and upper dermis
- redness, swelling, pain, blisters
- heals in 2 weeks with some scarring
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• 3rd degree:
- destroys epidermis and dermis
- burned areas are cherry red to black
- nerve endings are destroyed
- skin graft might be necessary

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Partial- Full-
thickness thickness

First- Second- Third-

degree degree degree
Epidermis

Dermis

Subcutaneous
tissue
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 Skin Cancer
• Most common cancer
• Mainly caused by UV light exposure
• Fair-skinned people more prone
• Prevented by limiting sun exposure and using
sunscreens
• UVA rays cause tan and is associated with
malignant melanomas
• UVB rays cause sunburns
• Sunscreens should block UVA and UVB rays
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 Types of Skin Cancer
• Basal cell carcinoma:
- cells in stratum basale affected
- cancer removed by surgery
• Squamous cell carcinoma:
- cells above stratum basale affected
- can cause death
• Malignant melanoma:
- arises from melanocytes in a mole
- rare type
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