Thick Skin Classification

There are two types of skin: thick skin and thin skin. Thick skin is a type of skin that covers body parts prone to trauma and abrasions i.e. palms, fingers, sole. Thin skin, on the other hand, covers the rest of our body. The two types of skin share a lot of characteristics, but they also have differences which warrant a different classification.
They are similar in that both are composed of 3 major layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis. The epidermis is where the epithelial cells are located, the dermis are where connective tissues, nerves, and blood vessels start to appear, and the hypodermis is where fat cells are located. The dermis of both tissues are divided into 2 layers of connective tissue. The connective tissue right below the
Embedded within the stratum papillare are Meissner bodies, which might not be very apparent. Meissner bodies are mechanoreceptors that allow humans to have a refined tactile touch ability. As we travel downwards toward the stratum reticulare, we can observe blood vessels which inner layer is made up of simple squamous epithelium and an outer lining of smoot muscle. Fig 7(e) might not be too clear, but upon closer inspection, the inner lining has cells with rounder nucleus compared to the cells above them, which have a more flattened appearance. The flattened appearance implies that they travel along the direction of the tube, so seen through this angle, it appears flat. Both types of skin also possess eccrine glands, or more commonly