The Different Types of Skin

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The stratified squamous layer of your skin does not have neural innovation. So if you were to take the five layers of your epidermis, the most superficial layer, which is the... What's the stratum? Conium. There's no neural innovation in there. And because there's many layers of them, you've got many layers of ... You could possibly classify dead cells.

One of the four tissue types of the body, epithelia lines and protects our organs from the external and internal environment. In this episode, Dr Matt & Dr Mike explain how the different shape and layers of epithelia tell you what function it performs (form = functions) and highlight examples in the body where you can find each type. They also explore cancer, metaplasia, dysplasia, and Dr Matt's mums skin cancer diagnosis and surgery.

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