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Integumentary System #2

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

What is the name of the involuntary smooth muscle that causes hair to standup and produces goosebumps?

Back (Answer)

Arrector Pilli

#2
Front (Question)

What is located deep in the dermis, produces nonliving hairs, wrapped in a dense connective tissue sheath and its base is surrounded by sensory nerves (root hair plexus)?

Back (Answer)

Hair Follicle

#3
Front (Question)

What lubricates hair and helps control bacteria?

Back (Answer)

Sebaceous Glands

#4
Front (Question)

What is the name of the lower part of the hair; attached to the integument?

Back (Answer)

Hair Root

#5
Front (Question)

What is the name of the upper part of the hair; not attached to the integument?

Back (Answer)

Hair Shaft

#6
Front (Question)

What is firmly attached to the matrix?

Back (Answer)

Growing Hair

#7
Front (Question)

What are soft, fine hair that covers the body surface known as?

Back (Answer)

Vellus Hairs

#8
Front (Question)

What is the name of the heavy, pigmented hair that covers the head, eyebrows, and eyelashes?

Back (Answer)

Terminal Hairs

#9
Front (Question)

What contains flexible soft keratin?

Back (Answer)

Medulla

#10
Front (Question)

What contains stiff hard keratin?

Back (Answer)

Corteal Cuticle

#11
Front (Question)

What is produced by melanocytes at the hair papilla; determined by genes?

Back (Answer)

Hair Color

#12
Front (Question)

What are hard structures covering the dorsal surfaces of the last phalanges of the fingers and toes?

Back (Answer)

Nails

#13
Front (Question)

What occurs in a deep epidermal fold near the bone called the nail root?

Back (Answer)

Nail Production

#14
Front (Question)

What is also known as the sudoriferous glands? Perspiration is 99% water; perspiration is excreted through pores; under the control of the nervous system.

Back (Answer)

Sweat Glands

#15
Front (Question)

What secretes sebum which is thick, oily substance? It helps lubricates the skin, keeping it soft and pliable.

Back (Answer)

Sebaceous Glands

#16
Front (Question)

What is found in armpits, around nipples, and groin? It secretes products into hair follicles; Surrounded by myoepthlial cells

Back (Answer)

Apocrine Sweat Glands

#17
Front (Question)

What is widely distributed on body surfaces - especially on the palms and soles?

Back (Answer)

Merocrine (Eccrine) Sweat Glands

#18
Front (Question)

What contains lipids and other ingredients? It helps lubricates and protects the epidermis and inhibits bacteria.

Back (Answer)

Sebum

#19
Front (Question)

What helps cool the skin, excretes water and electrolytes and flushes microorganisms and harmful chemicals from skin?

Back (Answer)

Merocrine Sweat Glands

#20
Front (Question)

What anatomical structure helps produce milk?

Back (Answer)

Mammary Glands

#21
Front (Question)

What helps produce cerumen (earwax)? It also helps protects the eardrum.

Back (Answer)

Cermuminous Glands

#22
Front (Question)

What helps control sebaceous and apocrine sweat glands? It works simultaneously over entire body.

Back (Answer)

Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

#23
Front (Question)

What do hair bulbs produce?

Back (Answer)

Hair Matrix

#24
Front (Question)

Hair Papilla

Back (Answer)

Contains Capillaries and Nerves