Integumentary System
Apparently there is no chapter/section for this in the book?
Integument
- the skin and all accessory structure (hair, feathers, scales)
Skin
- The largest vertebrate organ
- major part of the integument system
Vertebrate integument and derivatives
Functions
- Protection form abrasion
- protects against water loss
- barrier to disease causing pathogens
- protection from UV light
- temperature regulation
- contains sensory receptors
- excretion (limited)