The Skin

Series: Physiology - How Your Body Works Series

Year Published: 1967

Creator: British Broadcasting Corp TV

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Considers the skin as an organ which acts as a barrier between external changes and the delicately balanced internal living tissue. Discusses the structure and the distinct senses found in the skin--touch, heat detection, cold detection and pain. Explains that hair on man's body is a vestige of the time when man was covered with an insulating layer of fur.

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