NEET PG DENTAL EXAM

HISTOLOGY

INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM SKIN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
New skin cells are always being made at the ____ part of the epidermis.
A
highest
B
lowest
C
middle
D
epidermis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -New skin cells develop at the bottom layer of your epidermis (stratum basale) and travel up through the other layers as they get older. They reach the outermost layer of your epidermis after about a month, where the skin cells shed from your body as new cells develop at the bottom layer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The epidermis constantly renews itself: New cells are made in the lower layers of the epidermis. These move to the surface within four weeks. This constant renewal serves to replace the cells that are lost and fall to the ground as tiny flakes of skin when the skin is rubbed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The epidermis contains no blood vessels, and cells in the deepest layers are nourished by diffusion from blood capillaries present in the upper layers of the dermis. The papillary region of the dermis is composed of loose areolar connective tissue.

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