Why Skin Is Thicker in Certain Areas of Your Body

In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses the differences of skin thickness around the body, and how it can impact things such as aging and wound healing.

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We at the Institute of Human Anatomy are committed to teaching the science of the human body both accurately and compassionately. For this reason, we've listed the various published research used in creating this video.

References:

The aging face in darker racial ethnic groups:
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

Structure and function of ethnic skin and hair:
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net...

Skin from various ethnic origins and aging: an in vivo cross‐sectional multimodality imaging study
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

Measurement of Epidermis, Dermis, and Total Skin Thicknesses
from Six Different Body Regions with a new Ethical Histometric
Technique
http://www.turkplastsurg.org/index.ph...

Aging Differences in Ethnic Skin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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