Change: structures such as glands and hair follicles. Skin Appendages The skin contains a variety of appendages, mainly hair follicles (HF), sweat glands , and sebaceous glands, which are all embrylogically epidermal in origin. ◄.....Go Back to Gross Anatomy Home Page   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 657)

Change: outer layer of the skin and provides the first barrier of protection from the invasion of foreign substances into the body. The principal cell of the epidermis is called a keratinocyte. The epidermis is subdivided into five layers or strata, the stratum basalis(SB), the stratum spinosum(SS),   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 655)

Change: epithelial derived structures such as glands and hair follicles. Skin Appendages The skin contains a variety of appendages, mainly hair follicles (HF), sweat glands , and sebaceous glands, which are all embrylogically epidermal in origin. Back to Anatomy Home Page   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 652)

Change: with nutrients. The dermis is typically subdivided into two zones, a papillary dermis and a reticular layer. The dermis contains mostly fibroblasts which are responsible   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 478)

Change:  called desquamation. Stratum Spinosum The cells that divide in the statum germinativum soon begin to accumulate many desmosomes on their outer surface which provide the characteristic “prickles” (seen on the close-up view) of the stratum spinosum (SS), which is often called the prickle-cell layer. Stratum granulosum   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 212)

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