Integumentary System
Across
- 1. Helps the human body maintain its temperature
- 4. cell in the eyes and skin the produces melanin
- 5. nerve fiber endings sensitive for touch sensation
- 6. communicates sensations such as pain, touch, itch and warmth/cold
- 11. Part of a hair that is visible
- 14. produces and sustains hair growth
- 15. the lighter color of skin under the bottom of your nails
- 16. a skin condition in which hair follicles get clogged
- 19. the skins specialized antigen presenting cell
- 20. a lump of fluid, air or other substances
- 23. over most of the body opening directly onto the skins surface
Down
- 2. open in the hair follicle then to surface of skin
- 3. a network of arteries
- 7. microscopic gland found in hair follicles
- 8. a barrier preventing unwanted materials from entering, and important fluids from exiting
- 9. a clear, thin layer of dead skin cells in the outermost layer of the skin
- 10. specializes in skin, hair and nails
- 12. produces and releases certain hormones
- 13. a pore that surrounds a strand of hair and it’s root
- 17. the layer of skin on the top edge of your nails
- 18. outermost layer
- 21. primary cell in the outermost layer of the skin
- 22. oval shaped receptors for light touch sensation