For a doctor, simply looking at a patient's skin can help in making a diagnosis.
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Question 2) The dermis contains blood vessels and nerve fibers while the epidermis does not.
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Question 3) The skin is not able to receive stimuli because the cells of the epidermis are not living and therefore there are no sensory receptors in the skin.
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Question 4) The skin cancer most likely to metastasize is cancer of the melanocytes.
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Question 5) During the regressive phase of hair growth, the matrix is inactive and the follicle atrophies.
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Question 6) The reason that the nail bed appears pink is the presence of a large number of melanocytes in the underlying dermis.
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Question 7) Joe just burned himself on a hot pot. and the burn is quite painful. Joe's burn would best be described as a third-degree burn.
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Question 8) The protein found in large amounts in the outermost layer of epidermal cells is collagen.
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Question 9) The dense fibrous connective tissue portion of the skin is located in the reticular region of the dermis.
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Question 10) The apocrine sweat glands are not the primary gland involved in thermoregulation.
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