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- Small single-cell creatures that sway, roll, bounce, swim, eat, and reproduce all over
- your body.
- A really really bad, pus-filled zit. It can be large and painful. So there is something
- worse than getting a pimple.
- Another word for "grease". The yellow stringy thing that comes out of a blackhead
- when you squeeze it is actually dried up ____ from the sebaceous glands. How
- lovely.
- A chemical in skin that makes skin different colors. The more of it in your skin,
- the darker your skin color. Albinos are people who have pinkish-white skin and hair
- because their bodies don't make it.
- What a clock tells. It's the only real cure for acne.
- ____ endings in the dermis give the body its sense of touch. Ahhhh, how touching.
- Not living. As cells move up to the epidermis they become filled with keratin and
- get flat and wide. When they reach the surface of the skin, they are ____.
- Skin oil.
- Blood ____: the blood pipeline that carries yummy blood to nourish the deep living
- layer of your skin, also called the dermis.
- The part of your hair where new hair is actually made. The hair in here is actually
- alive, and then it dies by the time it sticks out of your skin.
- When you are exposed to sunlight,your melanocytes pump out more melanin to
- protect you. When your skin turns darker, you call this a ____.
- Hair ____ are holes in your skin where a single hair peeks out.
- The long part of your hair that sticks out of your skin.
- ____ surface: the part of your skin that you call "skin." This part is actually made of
- dead skin cells. Nope, nothing living there.
- The impressive medical name for a big ol' zit. Comedoes are made when sebum,
- bacteria and dead skin cells clump together and clog a pore.
- It's big and round and there are two of them on your face. No, it's not a zit.
- ____'s ending: a nerve ending in the dermis which senses heavy pressure on your skin.
- An area of dark colored, raised skin.
- A bunch of zits. Almost 90% of teenagers get it at some point. Bummer.
- A tiny little hole in your skin that pours out sweat or oil.
- It is thicker on the soles of your feet and the palms of your hands. If we walked on
- our noses, it would probably be thick there too.
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