Questions: What role does the epidermis play in maintaining overall health and well-being?

What role does the epidermis play in maintaining overall health and well-being?
Transcript text: What role does the epidermis play in maintaining overall health and well-being?
failed

Solution

failed
failed

The answer is the third one: Protecting the body from damage and disease.

Explanation for each option:

  1. Storing excess energy for later use: This is incorrect. The epidermis does not store energy. Energy storage is primarily the function of adipose tissue, which is found in the subcutaneous layer beneath the skin.

  2. Regulating body temperature: While the skin as a whole plays a role in temperature regulation, the epidermis itself is not primarily responsible for this function. The dermis, with its blood vessels and sweat glands, is more directly involved in regulating body temperature.

  3. Protecting the body from damage and disease: This is correct. The epidermis serves as the outermost layer of the skin and acts as a protective barrier against physical damage, pathogens, and harmful substances.

  4. Absorbing nutrients from the environment: This is incorrect. The epidermis is not involved in nutrient absorption. Nutrients are typically absorbed through the digestive system.

  5. Acting as a barrier against emotional distress: This is incorrect. The epidermis does not have a role in protecting against emotional distress. Emotional well-being is more related to psychological and neurological factors.

In summary, the epidermis primarily functions as a protective barrier, safeguarding the body from external damage and disease.

Was this solution helpful?
failed
Unhelpful
failed
Helpful

Questions asked by other users

failedAnswered
Select all that apply What are the two basic contrasting principles that guide managerial responsibility? As agents for the shareholders, managers have an obligation to maximize profit. The primary role of management is to meet workers' needs. Managers should be motivated by self-interest. Managers should be motivated by principled moral reasoning.
failedAnswered
Peter Lindsay suggests that using stereotypical images of an Indigenous group in the form of a mascot is wrong because stereotypes are offensive, are seen as objectionable by greater than 50% of Indigenous people in the U.S., always involve ascribing unflattering characteristics to the group depicted, undermine group members' autonomy by suggesting that their character traits are due to their group membership.
failedAnswered
In addition to new intellectual developments and scientific discoveries, the expansion of Europe into the Americas was aided by what desires and impulses among many Europeans?
failedAnswered
The figure to the right illustrates the long-run average cost curve for a company that makes motors. Suppose the company produces 17 thousand motors per month. Is it experiencing economies of scale, diseconomies of scale, or constant returns to scale? If the company produces 17 thousand motors, then it experiences
failedAnswered
Find the derivative of the function f(x) = 4 / (x - 1) using the limit definition of the derivative.