The outer covering of the body that protects it from the environment. It is composed of the DERMIS and the EPIDERMIS.

Annotation

for animal tissue in wound ther see note on BIOLOGICAL DRESSINGS; inflammation = DERMATITIS & its specifics; dryness of skin: index under SKIN DISEASES & do not interpret as XERODERMA see ICHTHYOSIS without clues from text

DUI

D012867 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0019925

Consider also

consider also terms at CUTANEOUS, CUTIS, and DERMAT-

History note

/transplantation was SKIN TRANSPLANTATION 1963-65; was SKIN/transplantation 1966-89

Public note

/transplantation was SKIN TRANSPLANTATION 1963-65; was SKIN/transplantation 1966-89