Facts About Your Skin - The Largest Organ in Your Body
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10 Little Fun Facts About Your Skin
- 1. Your skin is made up of 3 main layers.
- 2. Your skin is considered the largest organ in the human body.
- 3. Your skin is made up of three major layers - epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis (also called the subcutaneous tissue).
- 4. Your skin protects your inside organs while keeping infections out and prevents you from getting sick.
- 5. Your skin loses about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells from the surface almost every minute, even though you do not see it happening.
- 6. Your skin sheds a layer of these dead cells every 24 hours and renews itself about every 28 days.
- 7. Your skin swells when it absorbs water.
- 8. Your skin contains a protein called keratin which is also found in hair and nails
- 9. Your skin is the thinnest on the eyelid.
- 10. Goose bumps are actually little pimples that help retain a layer of warm air over our body.
What skin cancer may look like:
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These fun skin facts are interesting to read and learn. With skin being the largest organ of the body, it is important to know that skin cancer is ever increasing in numbers. The two most common skin cancers are basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. Basal Cell Cancer accounts for more than 90% of skin cancers in the U.S. Melanoma is usually the most serious form of skin cancer because of its tendency to spread throughout the body quickly. Although skin cancer is more prevalent in light colored skin; it is important for ALL people to take it seriously. There are many characteristics and appearances of what a skin cancer looks like. It may appear as a flat red spot that is rough or scaly or an undefined area that appears.
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The skin's sloughing cycle actually varies from person to person, but the process becomes slower as we age. So a younger person's skin may renew itself fully over the course of 10-14 days, but an older person's may take 28.
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Skin protects you by keeping water in your body and foreign paricles out also skin gets rid of wastes by sweating
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this is pretty good information i will need it for my school project on one of the organs or organ system.i have to do skin but it has to be one of the easiest but whatever i'll do my best
doing skin project
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Skin is the biggest organ in the body. It weighs almost 15 percent of the body weight. Skin is the protective shield of the body. It protects the body from micro organisms, chemicals and effect of sun rays.
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fact : your skin is actaully inside out.
interesting but it left me a little confused
I might use some of these for my PE assignment is on hygiene. i chose skin and we need 10 facts so im going to use some of these!
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omg i might have skin cancer
oh wait its a pimple
If you were to take off your skin and lay it out flat it would have an area of 20 feet.
hey, did you know that the skin is the largest organ!@ ? i didnt .. but now i know! :DDD
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thanks for the facts! I'm doing a project in science. :/
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Thx doing science project on the Integumentary System nd my teacher is so STRICT
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hey celine o brien here !!!! really had a super time reaing the facts ! learnt sooo much ... i love studying the skin super interseting!!! i got goose bumps reading the facts they were that good!!!! me feet got hot and swelled up!! xoxoxo love ya long time.. contact me on my cell or mail me ;) x
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This will really help with my science project!!!!! Hope i pass my science project!!!!!
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dude you people are not smart at all I went on here for information and all I got was crap you guys really suck and should get a life
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hey! another interesting fact if u took all your skin off it would weight about 4-5lbs
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what are some facts about the epidermis
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this helped alot.
my skin is pale and it is coming off
Your facts are not all correct.
Also, some of the comments are not correct either. Your skin does, on AVERAGE, renew itself every 28 days, and slows down from there during the natural aging process.
Goosebumps, ARE NOT pimples. They are a reaction from the arrector pili muscle, a minute muscle attatched to the hair follicle that causes the hair to stand on end, to help retain body heat.
A pimple is skin and debris being retained in the follicle causing an infection and inflammation.
The two are very different things.
Please complete your research and check all your facts before posting things. These children doing school projects about the skin are going to read this and think you are 100% correct and you're not.
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the skin is the biggest organ in the whole body the skin protect the x-ternal organ if we don't have skin we will DIE!!!!!
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Your skin is the most elastic thing in the world. FACT!
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What do we call holes created after large pimples are gone
Scars
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All u people helped me alot on my project tHank u so much mwah....XxXx
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eclogite 3 years ago
The skin actually renews itself every 10- 14 days not every 28 days.