Integumentary System and Muscles Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: reticular : this layer of the dermis makes up 80% of dermal thickness and consists of coarse, dense fibrous connective tissue, melanoma : this type of skin cancer is the most dangerous type because it is highly metastatic and resistant to chemotherapy, spinosum : stratum _ : this layer of the epidermis is several cell layers thick where keratinocytes appear spikey, hypodermis : subcutaneous layer deep to skin. made mostly of adipose tissue, tactile : this cell of the epidermis is a sensory receptor, perimysium : fibrous connective tissue surrounding fascicles, melanocytes : spider-shaped cells located deep in the epidermis. these cells produce pigment melanin, carotene : this pigment that contributes to skin color creates a yellow to orange pigment and accumulates in the stratum corneum and hypodermis, squamous : _ cell carcinoma: this type of skin cancer involves the keratinocytes in the stratum spinosum and can metastasize, basale : stratum _ : this is the deepest of all epidermal layers and consists of a single row of stem cells, corneum : stratum _ : this layer of epidermis consists of twenty to thirty rows of flat, anucleated, keratinized dead cells, skeletal : voluntary muscle, epidermis : superficial region of the skin. consists of epithelial tissue and is avascular, smooth : involuntary muscle found in walls of hollow organs, basal : _ cell carcinoma: this type of skin cancer is the least malignant but most common. it is characterized by proliferating cells that slowly invade the dermis and hypodermis, melanin : this pigment that contributes to skin color is made from the amino acid tyrosine and is the only pigment made in the skin, third : _ degree burn: this type of burn involves the entire thickness of the skin where nerve endings are destroyed, integumentary : this body system consists of skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands, lucidum : stratum _ : this layer of the epidermis consists of a thin, translucent band of two to three rows of clear, flat dead keratinocytes and is only found in thick skin, cardiac : muscle only found in the heart.