The Integumentary System (Skin)
The skin has many structures and functions.
- Understanding and seeing the basics of the skin's structure and its components is important.
- The surface of the skin is a rough microscopic surface. This Electron Microscopy (EM) video shows what it looks like. The EM process uses electrons instead of light to see what is present.
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- Conditions
- The skin grows moles, birth marks, age spots and warts are the common skin disorders covered in this animation.
- The sun, sunburns and skin tanning are the center of this animation of damaged skin and its reactions.
- Hair
- Blood flow through the dermis.
- Impared blood through the skin or any other ogran usually causes problems. See what this impared blood flow looks link if you were inside a blood vessel with sickle cell anemia.
- The skin sweats for many reasons. See an animation that explains the basics of this process.
- Inflammation of the skin is common. Think of the many skin problems your have had: itching, bumps, redness and painful skin conditions. Here are two animations that show what this process looks like.
- Inflammatory process with audio
- Inflammatory process with audio