INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does integumentary system mean? 

• INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the skin and its appendages

  Familiarity information: INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The skin and its appendages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("integumentary system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "integumentary system"):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

glandulae sebaceae; sebaceous follicle; sebaceous gland (a cutaneous gland that secretes sebum (usually into a hair follicle) for lubricating hair and skin)

nail (horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits)

 Context examples 

A domain for physiological findings related to the integumentary system, including the epidermis, dermis, all of the derivatives of the epidermis, hairs, nails, sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and mammary glands.

(Integumentary System Findings Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to integumentary system findings.

(Integumentary System Findings Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms, physical examination results, and/or laboratory test results related to the integumentary system.

(Integumentary System Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

An agent that exerts a physiologic effect on any anatomic entity that is part of the integumentary system, including skin, nails and hair.

(Agent Affecting Integumentary System, NCI Thesaurus)