Integumentary system-The integumentary system is an organ system consisting of the skin, hair, nails, and exocrine glands. The skin is only a few millimeters thick yet is by far the largest organ in the body. The average person’s skin weighs 10 pounds and has a surface area of almost 20 square feet. Skin forms the body’s outer covering and forms a barrier to protect the body from chemicals, disease, and physical damage. Hair and nails extend from the skin to reinforce the skin and protect it from environmental damages * Nails * Skin * Hair * Exocrine glands 3 interesting facts * Your skin is known as your birthday suit. *You will shed 40lbs of skin in a lifetime. * Every month you have a whole new layer of skin. 3 disorders * Acne is a disorder of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands that affects almost everyone at some time or another * Some of the well-known viral infections of the skin include chickenpox, measles, German measles, and cold sores .Warts, which are caused by a viral infection of the epidermis, are generally harmless and usually disappear with treatment. * Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. Although chemicals and radiation are known to induce cancer, the development of skin cancer is most often associated with exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, and consequently, most skin cancers develop on the face or neck.
Other systems the integumentary system works with
* With the immune system the skin is an integral part of the integumentary system and is also a part of immune system as well, in which it acts as the physical barrier for protection against foreign contaminants. * It holds our skeletal system together. If you have an open fracture, which is when a broken bone breaks through the skin, not you’re selectable to an infection because that protective barrier has been broken. * The lymathtic system keeps it from getting infected the endocrine is involved with this as well