Skin Psychiology

What is the first and toughest layer of the epidermis, containing keratinocytes?

What is the lack of perspiration?

What is the release of unnatural substances, toxins and waste material through sweat glands and pores?

What is the study of the causes of disease, disorders or conditions?

What is the term used to described conditions that are frequent and continuing?

What is the over-production of perspiration?

What is a group of inherited conditions that results in the failure of the skin to produce melanin, and are characterized by a hypersensitivity to light?

What is it when vitamins, acids, water and oxygen entering the skin through pores?

What respond to allergies by releasing small granules called histamines, and located in the dermis?

What condition is caused by excess secretion of the sebaceous glands?

What is an irregular, crusted, red papule that occurs in sun-exposed areas and may be an actinic keratosis that went untreated?

What is the fibrous protein, similar to collagen, which is the basis of what forms elastic tissue, contribute to the skins elasticity and help prevent "sagging"?

What is a disease that is active internally through the body systems?

What houses sensory nerve endings called receptors?

What are NOT one of the five layers of the epidermis?

Where are the sweat glands, oil glands, hair follicles, lympth vessels and arrector pill muscles?

What are three other names for the dermis?

What is the open comedo or follicle with a black surface plug, which has been oxidized and discoloured when the sebum has contact with air?

What is the main function of the skin?

What is the chronic inflammatory disorder of the sensations glands, caused when hair follicles become clogged with sebum, dead skin and bacteria; always caused by excess androgen?

What is an intense and severe condition implying rapid onset?

What is open directly onto the skin surface through pores that are not associated with a hair follicle?