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| What is the horse's largest organ? |
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| What is the skin responsible for? |
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| Protection, excretion, temperature control, synthesization of vitamin D, sense of touch |
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| Where is the skin the thickest? Thinnest? |
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| What are the three layers of skin? |
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| Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutis |
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| What are the 3 layers of the epidermis? |
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the stratum corneum
the stratum spinosum
the stratum germinativum |
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| What is the stratum cornea? |
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| The outer layer of the epidermis, is made up of dead cells which are shed as dandruff |
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| What happens in the stratum germinativum? |
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| New epidermal cells are made by mitosis, or cell division |
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| How do hair follicles gorw? |
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| Downwards from the epidermis into the dermis |
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| What does the dermis contain? |
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| Vessels, nerves, sweat glands |
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| What do the nerves in skin do? |
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| Sense pressure, pain, and temperature |
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| What is the subcutis made up of? |
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| fatty connective tissue which loosely connects teh skin to muscle |
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| What is the panniculus muscle? |
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| Runs beneath the subcutis, and is responsible for shivering and twitching away external parasites |
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| What is the panniculus AKA? |
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