Integumentary System Word Search
Skin, hair and nails make up one organ system, and this integumentary system word search covers all three: the epidermis on top and the fatty hypodermis below, the sebaceous glands that oil each hair follicle, the arrector pili behind goosebumps, the nail bed and the pale lunula.
Between those two layers lies the dermis, the thick middle layer, where collagen and elastin fibers keep skin firm and let it spring back after a pinch. The dermis holds the blood vessels, the nerve endings and the roots of the hairs. When you get cold or scared, the arrector pili, tiny muscles attached to each follicle, pull the hairs upright and raise goosebumps. In furry animals the same move fluffs up the coat to trap warm air. Skin is thinnest on the eyelids and thickest on the soles of the feet, where walking can build a callus.
The name comes from the Latin integumentum, a covering. The system keeps germs out and water in, and its two kinds of sweat glands work differently: eccrine glands all over the body cool it as sweat dries, while apocrine glands in the armpits open into hair follicles. Skin also makes vitamin D when sunlight strikes it. The lunula, the white half moon at the base of a nail, is the visible edge of the matrix where the nail grows, and fingernails grow faster than toenails.
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- Adipose
- Apocrine
- Arrector Pili
- Barrier
- Blister
- Callus
- Collagen
- Cuticle
- Eccrine
- Eczema
- Elastin
- Epidermis
- Follicle
- Freckle
- Goosebumps
- Hair Shaft
- Hives
- Hypodermis
- Integument
- Keratinocyte
- Lunula
- Matrix
- Melanocyte
- Mole
- Nail Bed
- Nerve Endings
- Pigment
- Pores
- Psoriasis
- Rash
- Ridges
- Scab
- Scar
- Sebaceous
- Shed
- Sweat Gland
- Tan
- Vitamin D
- Wart
- Wrinkle