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Fragrance-Free Nation: Fragrance and Your Skin
You just put on your favorite perfume, and you're off to work. Will that perfume stay there-on your neck or arm, or does it have other places to go besides the air around you? Guess what? It's on its way to other areas in your body too- through your skin!
perfume skin multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome contact dermatitis dermatology

SkinTheWonderwrap-13
Arthropods like insects have a remarkable wrapping around their bodies. Read about their exoskeleton….
arthropoda insecta bodywall exoskeleton cuticle

Skin Cancer
Skin cancer rates are on the rise. Sun exposure and ozone layer depletion are part of the problem. This article will briefly disuss the three main skin cancers seen.
cancer skin cancer melanoma basal cell basal cell carcinoma

The Physiology of Skin
Human skin is a highly complex, highly important organ, serving many different functions within the body and being absolutely essential for human life as we know it.
human skin largest organ in the body dermis epidermis purpose of skin

BLISTERS: How To Cure Them And How To Avoid Them
How to avoid blisters and how to treat them if you do get one - oh dear, the runner's curse.
blisters prevention curse infection treatment

Skin - The Wonderwrap - 12
Starfish (echinodermates) and Oyster (molluscan) skin has some special features.Pearls are formed to avoid irritation, like our skin develops corns and calluses.
corns bivalves oyster pearl pinctada

Skin - The Wonderwrap -11
A parrot’s feathers are green. Do its feathers have a green pigment? No! It is because of….
epidermis dermis. feathers flight camouflage keratin

Skin -The Wonderwrap 15
Compare your answers to the Skin Quiz-1 and take a look at the amazing world of flatworms-freeliving and parasitic. Tiny ones upto 100 feet long,whale of whale tapeworms.
platyhelminthes flatworms tapeworms platypus platyrrhine

Skin deep muscles - I
Beauty is skin deep perhaps, but so also are some muscles.
arrector pili panniculus carnosus cattle cats primates

Skin- The Wonderwrap-1
Our skin is a large organ.It is protective and sensitive.It regenerates itself.It has various associated structures like nails, scales, hair and a wide variety glands including sweat glands,Ceruminous glands etc.It has different textures and hues.So many, infact, that we should be called hu(e)mans rather than humans, perhaps. This is the first of the series of the articles on the skin and deals mainly with only the outermost layer of skin, the epidermis.
skin epidermis dermis strata of epidermis like stratum basale or germina stratum spinosum


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