ch 6

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Friction Ridges
  • markings on the fingertips that leave oily fingertips on surfaces we touch
  • allow ma no manipulation of small objects
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Flexion lines(flexion creases)
  • lines on the flexor surfaces of the digits,palms,wrists,elbows
  • skin bound to deeper tissues along these lines
  • mark sites where skin folds during flexion of joints
3
freckles and moles
tan to black aggregations of melanocytes
4
helamngiomas(birthmarks)
patches of discolored skin cause by behind tumors of the dermal capillaries
5
hair nails and cutaneous glands
  • accessory organs of the skin
  • composed of mostly dead karatinized cells
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hair( pilus,pili,)
another name for hair
7
lanugo
fine ,downy,unpigmented hair that appears on the fetus in the last 3 months of development.
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terminal
  • longer,coarser, and more heavily pigmented
  • forms eyebrows,eyelashes,and the hair of the scalp
  • after puberty forms pubic hair
  • male facial hair ,also on trunk and limbs
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