Skin Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is the Latin word for skin?
Cutis
2. How thick is the skin in the eye area?
0.5 mm
3. How thick is the skin on the soles of feet?
4 mm
4. What is the outer layer of the skin called?
Epidermis
5. What do granular glands secrete?
Toxic compounds
6. Which animal is the one to have uropygial glands?
Birds
7. What is the name of the thin layer of fibers that separates the dermis from the epidermis?
Basement membrane
8. How many layers is the epidermis divided into?
5
9. Which animal's skin was NOT used to make parchment for manuscripts?
A pig
10. What is the name of the sublayer of the epidermis that is only found in the soles and the palms?
Stratum lucidum