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Understanding Your Skin's Functions

The skin has several important functions: 1. It protects the body from bacteria, harmful agents, and injury from the external environment. 2. It regulates fluid balance and temperature by inhibiting water loss and producing sweat. 3. It synthesizes vitamin D and contains sensory receptors that detect pain, temperature, and pressure.

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Understanding Your Skin's Functions

The skin has several important functions: 1. It protects the body from bacteria, harmful agents, and injury from the external environment. 2. It regulates fluid balance and temperature by inhibiting water loss and producing sweat. 3. It synthesizes vitamin D and contains sensory receptors that detect pain, temperature, and pressure.

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; Your skin protects your body against infection and extreme temperatures, maintains your balance of

fluids, and even synthesizes vitamin D for your own personal use.
- It protects against invasion by bacteria and harmful agents.
- It protects delicate cells beneath the surface from injury.
- It inhibits excessive loss of water and electrolytes
- It produces a protective pigmentation to protect the body against excessive exposure from the sun.
- It helps produce the body’s supply of Vitamin D.

: - The skin provides sensations. It contains millions of nerve endings that act as sensory receptors for
pain, heat, cold, and pressure.(like sweating, blushing and flushing) When stimulation occurs, nerve
impulses are sent to cerebral cortex of the brain, and the brain triggers any necessary response.

; It also accounts for about 3 to 5 kilograms of your body weight, and if you could spread it out, it would
measure to two square meters, enough to cover your bed haha. It comes in lots of different colors, you can
cover it up, or show it off. And basically of course, without it you would basically shrivel up and die in no
time.\

: So we have layers, the key to your integumentary system is layers. And although you can’t tel by
looking at it, your skin actually has three of them, each with particular types of cells have their own skin
jobs.

Epidermis- Upper layer of skin (epi-means top of, dermis- means skin) is the only layer you can actually
see, assuming that your skin is intact, which is why it’s what you think na skin, well its made of stratified
squamous (two or more layers of cells, multiple layers set on top of each other, like bricks)
epithelial tissue.

Dermis-The lower layer of skin

2 TYPES OF LAYER

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