Biosciences Workbook Week 2: The Skin, Wound Healing, Temperature Regulation

Year 1
Biosciences for nursing
Workbook week 2
The skin
Wound healing
Temperature regulation
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2 Biosciences for nursing (Adult Nursing)
Biosciences workbook
This workbook aims to further reinforce knowledge and understanding of
students on the systems of the body and to enable them to study at their
own pace. It is also a self- assessment tool for students to identify whether
learning has taken place. It encourages close reading of the lecture notes
and textbook to find the relevant information.
Learning anything new takes a lot of effort. Learning is an active process;
you need to engage with the work and practice writing the new ‘language’
down in your notebook (or online portfolio). Pay attention to how the words
are spelt for example, it is easy to confuse atria and arterial. Eventually this
language will become your own language. Reading is a very passive activity,
reading alone is not a good way to learn, you need to engage fully by
questioning everything you read. This workbook is designed to help you with
this, however, just completing the workbook is not enough, if this subject is
new to you will have to go over it many times.
Although many of the answers can be found in the lecture notes, not all can
be found here. Please use your textbook to read around the subject to
extend your knowledge and understanding. However, there is often much
more in textbooks than you need to know. In order to help you focus on what
you need to know the learning outcomes for each session are given to you.
In this workbook there is a separate section for each lecture. Please
complete and submit (workbook submission portal) the relevant section
following your lectures in preparation for the ‘live’ quiz. If you leave the work
for a few weeks, you will find it very difficult to catch up.
Read you lecture notes and textbook prior to completing each section. Can
you answer the questions without looking back at your notes? Sometimes
the same question is repeated in a different way. This is deliberate as
repetition helps us to remember.
Good luck!

Structure of the skin
1. Label the following diagram using the corresponding labels from the list:
Arrector pili muscle; Adipose tissue; Hair follicle; Nerve fibres; Sudoriferous
gland; Sebaceous gland; Hair shaft; Stratum corneum, Stratum basale, Hair
bulb; Epidermis; Dermis; Hypodermis (subcutaneous tissue)
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1 – Sudoriferous gland
2 – Hypodermis
3 – Dermis
4 – Epidermis
5 – Hair shaft
6 – Stratum corneum
7 – Stratum basale
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8 – Sebaceous gland
9 – Arrector pili muscle
10 – Nerve fibres
11 – Hair follicle
12 – Hair bulb
13- Adipose tissue\