INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM.

LIST OF FUNCTIONS.

• Regulate body temperature.
• Eliminate waste.
• Gather information.
• Produce vitamin d.

ORGANS IN THE SYSTEM.

• Skin is the only organ in the integumentary system.

EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS.

• The skin forms a barrier that keeps harmful substances outside the body. The skin helps the body maintain a steady temperature. And the perspiration that comes out of your skin takes out wastes.

WHAT SYSTEM DOES IT WORK WITH?

• The integumentary system works with the nervous system.
• The nervous system depends on the neurons in your skin to sense the outside world.

SYSTEMS CONTINUED.

• The integumentary system also works close with your circulatory system.
• Because certain substances can enter in to your skin your circulatory system can help send the medications you take to fight the substances that are in your body.
• And last immune system.
• The immune system can send tiny oils to help the barrier of skin.

INTEGUMENTARY DISEASES

• Cold sore;
• A cold sore is a small,painful, blister-like sore on or around a persons lips.
• Eczema,
• Eczema is red, flaky skin it can happen mostly anywhere on your body. Sometimes it can happen by itself.

Here is someone with Eczema.

Here is someone with a cold sore.

FACTS!

• The integumentary system includes: hair, nails, and glands.
• Your skin has two mail layers, the epidermis and the dermis.
• Your skin is the largest organ in you body!
• the number of hair on your head has been fingered to be approximately 120,000!
• When wet, a healthy hair can stretch nearly thirty percent of its original length.

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LINKS

• http://sciencenetlinks.com/student-teacher-sheets/integumentary-system/
• http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/cold-sores.html
• http://www.livescience.com/27115-skin-facts-diseases-conditions.html
• http://integumentarysystem.organsofthebody.com/facts-abouts-integumentary-s...