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Skin section with nail and hair root
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The outer surface of the human body is covered by the skin. Depending on a person's body height, the area
covered by the skin is 1.5 to 1.8m². This model graphically illustrates the different structures of the thick
(ridged) skin and the thin skin and the appendages of the skin (glands, nail and hair). The structures of the
nail and of the hair root are also depicted.
1 Epidermis
2 Derma
3 Subcutaneous tissue
4 Horny layer of epidermis
5 Clear layer of epidermis
6 Granular layer of epidermis
7 Spinous layer of epidermis
8 Basal layer of epidermis
9 MEIISSNER´s tactile corpuscle
1 0 VATER-PACINI corpuscle
1 1 Sweat gland
1 2 Distal phalange of hand
1 3 Matrix of nail
1 4 Lunula of nail
1 5 Nail wall
1 6 Body of nail
1 7 Free margin of nail
1 8 Hair cuticle
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1 9 Medulla of hair
2 0 Cortex of hair
2 1 Hair papilla
2 2 Hair bulb
2 3 Root of hair
2 4 Arrector muscle of hair
2 5 Sebaceous gland
2 6 Subpapillary plexus
2 7 Hair shaft
2 8 Papilla
2 9 Sudoriferous duct
3 0 Sweat pore
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