Skin: the bare facts

• ~ 2 square meters of surface (human body)

• 1/6 of the body’s mass

  • heaviest single organ

• Categories

  • thin ( ~ 100 µm)
  • thick ( ~ 500 µm)
  • hairy and nonhairy
  • glabrous (palms and soles)

• Appendages

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