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The Human Body in Health and Illness
Chapter 7 Exam Study Guide.


Apocrine Glands - Answers✔One of the sudoriferous(sweat) glands.

Ceruminous Glands - Answers✔Modified sweat glands found in the external ear canal; they
secrete cerumen, or ear wax.

Conduction - Answers✔Loss of heat energy as it is transferred from the warm body to a cooler
object, such as a cooling blanket.

Convection - Answers✔Loss of heat energy to the surrounding cooler air. The layer of heated air
next to the body is constantly being removed by a fan(or a breeze) and replaced with cooler air.

Cutaneouos Membrane - Answers✔Skin

Dermis - Answers✔The thicker layer of the skin; dense connective tissue under the epidermis of
the skin.

Eccrine Glands - Answers✔Type of sweat gland that secretes a watery substances; plays an
important role in the regulation of body temperature.

Epidermis - Answers✔Outer epithelial layer of the skin.

Evaporation - Answers✔Loss of heat as water changes from the liquid to the vapor as gas state.

Fingerprints - Answers✔The mark created by the undersides of the tips of the fingers and thumb;
the impression is created by the ridges on the skin surface.

Hyperthermia - Answers✔An elevation of body temperature above normal; its cause is a failure
of the body to cool, as in exposure to high external temperature.

Hypothermia - Answers✔A decrease of body temperature below normal; its cause is due to
excess loss of heat, as in exposure to low external temperature.



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