1. The Integumentary System

2. Skin The largest organ in your body Functions
Covers the body and prevents water loss
Protects the body from injury and infection
Regulates body temperature
Eliminates wastes (sweat)
Produces vitamin D
Gathers information about the environment
Stores fat for fuel and insulation

3. Organs of the integumentary system
The name is derived from the Latin integumentum, which means “a covering.”
skin
hair
nails

4. Label and color the parts of the integumentary system
finger nail

5. Prevents Water Loss
Skin prevents water from leaking out of your body.

6. Prevents Infection
Skins acts as a barrier to bacteria and viruses.

7. Eliminates Waste
Sweating eliminates dissolved waste from your body.

8. Gathers Information
Skin contains nerves that can feel pain or pressure.

9. Provide Vitamin D
With the help of sunlight, your skin produces vitamin D
Vitamin D is essential in calcium absorption from food

10. Maintains Homeostasis
Helps to keep the body temperature normal
Has blood vessels that tell the body when it is hot or cold
Hot – blood vessels get larger and sweating occurs
Cold – blood vessels constrict to keep blood in the body’s core

11. Layers of Skin Skin consists of three main layers epidermis dermis
subcutaneous layer
subcutaneous layer

12. Epidermis
Epidermis – the upper layer of skin where nails grow and where melanin is located.
Every minute, 30, ,000 skin cells fall off
95% of your skin cells make new cells
5% make melanin
More sun exposure = more melanin (tan)

13. dermis - middle layer of skin that contains nerves, blood vessels, sweat glands, oil glands and hair follicles.

14. subcutaneous layer – acts as a fat storage to provide warmth and to absorb shock.

15. hair Made of a strong, dead protein, called keratin.
Grows out of a tiny tube called a follicle.
Hair growth is caused by rapid mitosis in the follicle.
Hair follicles are everywhere except
lips
palms
soles

16. hair Over 100,000 follicles on the scalp.
Each follicle is attached to a gland that secretes sebum (oil).
Color is partially determined by melanin.

17. nails Modified hair that grows from your cuticle. Made of keratin.
No nerve endings.
Protects the end of fingers and toes
Takes 6 months to grow from cuticle to tip.

18. nails Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Nails grow faster on your dominant hand.
Nails DO NOT grow after death!

19. Body systems that work with the integumentary system;
respiratory system to get oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
circulatory system to deliver oxygen.
excretory system to eliminate waste.

20. The integumentary system is similar to the cell membrane in a cell.