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Are platelets blood vessels?
No. They are cells that help heal wounds on your skin. Blood vessels are arteries and veins.
What a decubitus ulcer results when skin cells are deprived?
Blood supply
Where are the major blood vessels that supply the skin located?
The dermal reticular layer; this layer is the location of a lot of structures such as the hair follicles and the blood vessels.
Why are blood vessels helpful in the skin?
Blood vessels are helpful to the skin because they carry oxygen and nutrients to it. Blood vessels help to keep the skin looking fresh and youthful.
What is massed blood vessels on the skin's surface called?
A hemangioma is a mass of blood vessels on the skin's surface.
What do blood vessels do in the skin?
Blood vessels carry blood from one place to another.
How is the skin nourished?
Strictly speaking, skin cells are nourished the same way that all cells of the body are nourished, by means of the nutrients carried in the blood. Aside from that, I also moisturize my hands with Vaseline intensive care skin lotion.
Your skin bleeds when you cut it but why doesn't your hair?
your skin bleeds because it has blood vessels and your hair has no blood vessels.
When body temp rises blood vessels in the skin do what?
When body temperature rises, blood vessels in the skin dilate. This expansion allows heat to be released from the superficial vessels of the skin.
Nerves and blood vessels are found in the part called?
The dermis, or lower layer of the skin, contains blood vessels and sensory nerve endings
What layer of skin that contains the blood vessels and nerves closest to the surface of of the skin is?
The upper layer of the skin is called the 'epidermis'. In birds, it contains no nerve cells, and their Merkel cells are located in the dermis. However, in most animals it contains a scattering of nerve cells called Merkel cells, located at the basal layer. The middle layer of the skin is called the 'dermis.' It contins blood vessels, most of the nerve cells, and other structures. The lower layer of the skin is called the 'sub-cutis' and mostly contains fat.
What vessels are typically closer to the skin?
Blood Vessels I suppose.
