The Integumentary System

Functions of the Integumentary system include protection against infection, housing sensory receptors for the sense of touch , and............

• making blood cells

• helps maintain body temperature

• digesting food

• waste elimination

excessive sweating

• hypertrichosis

• hyperhidrosis

• rubella

• ichthyosis

softening of the nails

• onychomalasia

• onychopathy

• onychomalacia

• onychocryptopathy

rhytidectomy

• surgical repair of wrinkles

• pertaining to within the skin

• pertaining to under the skin

• surgical removal of wrinkles

The medical term dermatosis means .....

• abnormal condition of the skin

• scleroderma

• erythroderma

• hirsutism

The medical term scleroderma means....

• ondition in which the body is unable to make melanin

• a flat spot on the skin

• hyperhidrosis

• hard skin

Which term means red skin?

• xeroderma

• albinoderma

• erythroderma

• carcinoderma

The scraping away of the skin surface by friction is called .....

• abrasion

• diagnostic procedure that examines a piece of tissue under a microscope

• keloid

• containing pus

Presence of excessive facial hair.

• virilism
• masculinization
• hirsutism
• myxedema

A bruise caused by blunt trauma to the skin is called a/an ......

• ecchymosis

• laceration

• decubitus ulcer

• keloid