Integumentary System: Skin Structure & Function 🧑🏽‍🎓

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Your skin is pretty amazing. Here is an overview of the functions of the skin, the layers of the skin, and the various structures found in it.

0:00 Introduction
0:50 Functions of the Skin
1:44 Three Layers
2:19 Epidermis (5 Strata)
4:13 Melanocytes and Melanin
5:16 Dermis and Hypodermis
6:00 Blood Vessels and Thermoregulation
6:53 Sweat Glands
7:28 Hair
8:19 Oil (Sebaceous) Glands
9:06 Arrector Pili Muscle
9:24 Sensory Neuron Receptors
10:05 Recap
11:46 Tattoos
12:28 Endscreen of Adorableness

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Images used:
“Layers of Epidermis”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:502_Layers_of_epidermis.jpg
OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“Melanocytes”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:504_Melanocytes.jpg
OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons