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The epidermis is the outermost of the three major layers that constitute the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis. The epidermal layer provides a barrier to infection from environmental pathogens and regulates the amount of water released from the body into the atmosphere through transepidermal water loss.
The epidermis is the thin, outermost layer of your skin that sits above two deeper layers called the dermis and hypodermis. It protects you by blocking harmful germs from entering your body and controlling how much water your skin loses to the air.
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Key facts
- Microanatomy.Name
- Epidermis
- Microanatomy.Latin
- epidermis
- Microanatomy.Image
- Epidermis-delimited.JPG
- Microanatomy.Caption
- Microscopic image of the epidermis, which constitutes the outer layer of skin, shown here by the white bar
- Microanatomy.Image2
- Epidermal layers.png
- Microanatomy.Caption2
- Microscopic image showing the layers of the epidermis. The stratum corneum appears more compact in this image than above because of different sample preparation.
- Microanatomy.System
- Integumentary system
- Microanatomy.PartOf
- Skin
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Research
69,081 papers- The skin barrier: Epidermis vs environment.Experimental dermatology · 2018Eckhart L, Zeeuwen PLJMDOI: 10.1111/exd.13731
- Beyond being innervated: the epidermis actively shapes sensory dendritic patterning.ReviewOpen biology · 2019Yang WK, Chien CTDOI: 10.1098/rsob.180257
- The human epidermis.ReviewThe Proceedings of the Nutrition Society · 1995Schallreuter KU, Wood JMDOI: 10.1079/pns19950048
- Retinoids and the epidermis.ReviewBiochemical Society transactions · 1988Wood EJ, Raxworthy MJ, Holland DBDOI: 10.1042/bst0160668
- Origin of the epidermis in parasitic platyhelminths.ReviewInternational journal for parasitology · 1997Tyler S, Tyler MSDOI: 10.1016/s0020-7519(97)00013-1
- Whole-Mount Preparation and Microscopic Analysis of Epidermis.Current protocols · 2022Kubo A, Aoki S, Fujita HDOI: 10.1002/cpz1.464
- Inonotus obliquus sclerotia epidermis were different from internal tissues in compound composition, antioxidant activity, and associated fungi.FEMS microbiology letters · 2023Zhang Y, Liu Q, Sun Y et al.DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnad126
- The Caenorhabditis elegans epidermis as a model skin. II: differentiation and physiological roles.ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Developmental biology · 2012Chisholm AD, Xu SDOI: 10.1002/wdev.77
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- skin
- Has part
- stratum corneum
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- Epidermis (skin)
- studied by
- dermatology
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