Word: epidermises
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For severe burn patients, the first priority of treatment is to restore the damaged skin that is the body's first line of defense against microbes. To lessen the need for taking extensive skin grafts from other areas of a burn patient's already weakened body, several biotechnology companies have...
Who wouldn't go crazy with a doctor who doesn't know the difference between obstruction and obstetrics, or the epidermis and an epidural?!
No one doubts that the sun's toll is rising. One in 6 Americans will suffer from skin cancer, and the incidence is increasing nearly 4% annually. Of the 700,000 new cases that will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, 80% will involve cells found in the lower...
In conventional techniques, known as split thickness skin grafting, doctors replant both the epidermis and the underlying layers of skin with skin from another part of the body.
Fewkes says that researchers are investigating the possibility of using cultured epithelial cells from neonatal foreskins as an experimental dressing for leg ulcers. Scientists are also examining ways to create synthetic epidermis, based on current knowledge learned from culturing skin cells.