Is your skin the color of caramel or cream? Do you care a lot about looking tanned and healthy‚ or white and clean? Let’s forget the cliché that beauty is skin deep. In reality‚ regardless of our age or sex‚ humans love to judge people by their skin color. Two thousand years ago‚ Greek and Roman women used lead paint and chalk to lighten their skin. In Asia‚ women swallowed ground pearls to achieve the same effect. Right now‚ whitening products line beauty shelves‚ and advertisements bombard us with
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is a very serious type of skin cancer that can be caused by being exposed to ultraviolet rays. In most cases‚ these ultraviolet rays usually come from the sun‚ but they can also come from other artificial sources such as tanning booths (1). Exposure to ultraviolet rays damages your skin‚ but it usually takes several years before this damage leads to health problems such as melanoma (1). The skin is made up of three layers which are the epidermis‚ the outer layer of skin‚ the dermis‚ which is the
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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
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Aging of the human skin Enlarged version The formation of lines and wrinkles in light-exposed areas throughout the body‚ such as on the face‚ throat‚ décolleté and hands is a well-known sign of skin aging. Lines and wrinkles are influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The numerous intrinsic factors are age‚ gender‚ genetic disposition and race. In exposed and unprotected zones of the body such as on the skin of the hands and the face‚ extrinsic factors such as UV light‚ weather
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not dangerous‚ but can leave skin scars. Human skin has pores (tiny holes) which connect to oil glands located under the skin. The glands are connected to the pores via follicles - small canals. These glands produce Sebum‚ an oily liquid. The sebum carries dead skin cells through the follicles to the surface of the skin. A small hair grows through the follicle out of the skin. Pimples grow when these follicles get blocked‚ resulting in an accumulation of oil under the skin. n humans‚ pimples tend to
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1.1 The skin is the largest organ of the body and it acts as a waterproof protector for all the internal organs and it consist of four distinct layers: The epidermis‚ the basement membrane zone‚ the dermis and the subcutaneous layer. The epidermis which is the outer layer and is a protective multi-layered self-renewing structure which varies in thickness depending on which part of the body it covers. The dermis is underneath the epidermis‚ this is a layer of connective tissue which provides the
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Café au lait spots and hemangiomas would be seen in newborns. Precancerous keratotic lesion.A raised‚ rough plaque of red-tan pigmentation with a silver-white scale Lichenification is caused by prolonged intense scratching eventually thickening the skin and producing tightly packed sets of papules; this looks like surface of moss (or lichen). Keratoses .lesions that are raised‚ thickened areas of pigmentation that look crusted‚ scaly‚ and warty. seborrheic keratosis‚ looks dark‚ greasy‚ and “stuck
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amelanotic melanoma; Amelanotic melanoma is a form of skin cancer that lacks dark colors such as brown and black that are mostly seen in other forms of skin cancer. About 2.8 percent of melanomas are amelanotic‚ the risk of dying is higher since this form of skin cancer is hard to fight when found. This cancer is mostly found in advanced stages because it is so hard to detect from its looks as if it’s normal skin with a pinkish pigment to it. Skin cancer is mainly found in white patients and has pink
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everywhere. No perfections made in life‚ but yet some flaws can lead to bigger mistakes. Skin Stealer by Shel Silverstein and Ladies First by Shel Silverstein both show how a small mistake can lead to something bigger. Both texts are about how doom of one person can be caused by a small mistake that happened previously. In Skin Stealer it states‚ “ he’s the coo-coo who’s wearing my skin.” This shows that the character’s skin was stolen by a coo-coo. This is important because something must of happened to
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Diseases of the Skin and Treatments Kari Fournier MO150-7 September 18‚ 2011 Instructor Eileen Domerchie Diseases of the Skin and Treatments In this paper‚ I am going to be writing about 3 different types of diseases of the skin and their treatments. Also I will be including the signs and symptoms‚ causes of the diseases‚ and the medication side effects. The first topic will be about Measles‚ which is an example of a viral skin infection. Next topic will be about Malignant Melanoma
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