James Jeng, associate director of the center, explained that the first thing surgeons do after a burn patient enters the hospital is cut ... skin loses its ability to retain moisture; the dermis ...

The trade-off of this hardy external layer is that it doesn't expand; it remains relatively inflexible and constricts the ...

Skin injury results when the skin to adhesive ... the epidermal layers separate or the epidermis separates completely from the dermis. Adhesive removal itself results in detachment of varying ...

Here's what they discovered. In order for a tattoo to be permanent, ink has to get into the dermis, the tissue just underneath the outer layer of your skin, called the epidermis. This is done by ...