Integumentary System
Major Functions:
- Protects the body's internal living tissues and organs
- Protects against invasion by infectious organisms
- Protects body from dehydration
- Protects body against abrupt changes in temperature
- Helps dispose of waste materials
- Acts as receptor for touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold
- Stores water and fat
- Protects against invasion by infectious organisms
- Protects body from dehydration
- Protects body against abrupt changes in temperature
- Helps dispose of waste materials
- Acts as receptor for touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold
- Stores water and fat
Diagram of the skin and accessory structures:
5 Layers to the Epidermis
- Stratum Corneum - Stratum Lucitum - Stratum Granulosum - Stratum Spinosum - Stratum Basale (Home to Melanocytes...Skin Color) - (Quick Tip: Come, Let's, Get, Sun-Burned) 2 Two Layers of the Dermis - Reticular layer (below) dense CT - Papillary Layer (above) loose CT Subcutaneous layer (aka: hypodermis) - Fat storage - Blood Vessel |
Working With Other Systems?
- An example of this system working with another system is the integumentary system and the circulatory system.
-Capillaries are located in the dermis of the skin, capillaries are responsible for the transfer of oxygen rich blood to oxygen poor blood in our body
-Capillaries are located in the dermis of the skin, capillaries are responsible for the transfer of oxygen rich blood to oxygen poor blood in our body
Questions:
- What are the two layers of the dermis?
- Why and how do our hairs stand up on our skin?
- What is located in the subcutaneous layer?
- In a brief summary please explain how we feel touch through our skin and which system, along with the integumentary system, is involved with it?
- Why and how do our hairs stand up on our skin?
- What is located in the subcutaneous layer?
- In a brief summary please explain how we feel touch through our skin and which system, along with the integumentary system, is involved with it?