Across
- 2. The white area at the base of the nail resembling a moon is called the _____.
- 4. Cells responsible for skin pigmentation.
- 6. Hair and nails are made of a hard protein called _____.
- 8. Medical term for "sweating".
- 10. Tiny opening on the surface of the skin.
- 11. The combining form, albin/o means ______.
- 12. Sebaceous glands secrete an oily substance called _____.
- 13. When a sample of skin tissue is taken to be examined by a pathologist it is called a _____.
Down
- 1. What can happen to the skin when there is no blood supply and the tissue dies is known as _____.
- 3. Having no hair, baldness.
- 5. This combining form means red.
- 7. Condition where the skin loses pigmentation in different areas.
- 8. Dense, fibrous, connective tissue layer that contains collagen.
- 9. The medical term for itching.
- 14. The skin is a ______ membrane for the entire body.