It caused her outer skin layer to deteriorate and burn off, leaving at least 60 percent of her body as an open wound.
This causes an ongoing cycle in which new skin cells move to the outermost layer of skin too quickly in days rather than weeks.
Even though I had been assured that the tags wouldn't hurt the walruses because of their tough skin and thick layer of blubber, I was still relieved to see that the animal barely seemed to notice the tag as it landed on its hide.
In the most concentrated areas, he says, it could be compared to products you would clean your kitchen with, causing dry or cracked skin, or - in cases of prolonged contact - it can "lift off the top layer of your skin".
By the time the coaches had the athletes stop, many had their their hands blistered hard, through at least one layer of skin.
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The players loved them: They clung to the body like a second layer of skin, yet wicked away perspiration, keeping the shirts drier and lighter.
In ablative (wounding) laser resurfacing, a laser beam destroys the outer layer of skin (epidermis) and heats the underlying skin (dermis), which stimulates the growth of new collagen fibers.
Mongolian spots (technically named congenital dermal melanocytosis) are flat bluish-green, gray or light brown areas where cells called melanocytes have been trapped in a layer of the skin called the dermis.
Rather than scraping down the old potboilers he bought in junk shops, he simply cleaned them with alcohol and reprimed them with a layer of rabbit-skin glue.
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He then wants to take moulded sheets of artificial skin to build up the intermediate layer, the dermis, before adding the outer epithelium graft employing new approaches that lift thin, 20-cell-thick slices from elsewhere on the body.
It was fascinating to see the images building up until we could see an actual photograph of the layer of fat under his skin and around his organs.
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So instead, I use a skin-tight, sweat-wicking polypro base layer on my legs and torso, then the aforementioned fleece layers (which also repel water toward my outer shell).
The thinning of the ozone layer presented risks that were widely accepted: people fear skin cancer.
The magic, it turns out, is in that subatomic spray, as the group treated with an electron shower benefited from a polymerizing effect or, more plainly, a bonding of molecules just above the skin's surface that yielded a tough, protective nano-layer measuring between 50- to 100-billionths of a meter thick.
In the past few years players have started to wear this layer of protective gear meant to feel like a second-skin in a sport that has bigger, faster and stronger athletes than ever.
The temperature near your skin is greater than the temperature on the surface of your clothes, mainly due to a layer of trapped air near your body.
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He experienced firsthand the impact of humanity on the environment when under the hole in the ozone layer at the South Pole, the harsh ultraviolet rays from the sun burned his skin and permanently changed the color of his eyes.
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