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    The intergumentary system consists of the skin, nails, and hair. The skin has two main layers - the epidermis and dermis. It acts as a protective barrier and helps regulate body temperature through sweat. Nails protect sensitive skin and aid in functions like scratching. Hair grows from follicles in the dermis and has protective and aesthetic purposes. Diseases that can affect the intergumentary system include warts, dermatitis, and athlete's foot. Proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, and moisturizing can help prevent skin abnormalities.

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    The intergumentary system consists of the skin, nails, and hair. The skin has two main layers - the epidermis and dermis. It acts as a protective barrier and helps regulate body temperature through sweat. Nails protect sensitive skin and aid in functions like scratching. Hair grows from follicles in the dermis and has protective and aesthetic purposes. Diseases that can affect the intergumentary system include warts, dermatitis, and athlete's foot. Proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, and moisturizing can help prevent skin abnormalities.

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    The intergumentary system consists of the skin, nails, and hair. The skin has two main layers - the epidermis and dermis. It acts as a protective barrier and helps regulate body temperature through sweat. Nails protect sensitive skin and aid in functions like scratching. Hair grows from follicles in the dermis and has protective and aesthetic purposes. Diseases that can affect the intergumentary system include warts, dermatitis, and athlete's foot. Proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, and moisturizing can help prevent skin abnormalities.

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    The Intergumentary

    System.
    The Intergumentary system.

    Consists of the skin, nails and hair. Skin it helps to


    keep the water in your body and out of the
    foreign particles.
    It also helps regulate body temperature. Through
    sweat wastes and chemicals are removed.
    The skin is the largest organ in the
    human body.
    The skin has two main leyers:
    Epidermis: this is the most superficial, it is
    thicker in the palm of the hand and the food.
    Most of the cells are dead.
    Dermis: It is bellow the epidermis, consisting of a
    protein called collagen.
    Nails preserve sensitive skin under them helping
    with balance when walking in the case of the
    feet, also serving to take and scrape things.
    The nail together with the adjacent tissue
    and fingertips constitute a functional unit as
    an organ of touch and prehensile organ that
    enables important functions for human life
    such as scratching and tingling.
    Hair is a continuation of the scalp, consisting of
    a keratin fiber comprising a root and stem.
    It is formed in a follicle in the dermis. In humans,
    the hair has protective and aesthetic functions.


    The intergumentary tissue has different functions,
    depending on the species marked in question.

    -Protective barrier against the external


    environment.
    -Nutrition.
    -Breathing
    -Excretion
    Deseases.
    Warts.
    This disease of the intergumentary system is
    characterized by a small round and rough tumor and
    is typically found on the hands and feet.
    Dermatitis.
    Is a general term used to describe inflammation
    of the skin.
    This disorder can have dozens of causes and can
    occur in various forms, starting out as an itchy
    rash and spread to increase with redness and
    sweeling.
    Atheletes food.
    It is a fungal infection of the skin itchy, flaking
    and itching of various reas of the skin. This
    disease is mainly transmitted in most reas
    where people walk barefoot. Fungal infections
    that most often affect nails hands and feet are
    caused by yeast called desmatophytes, highly
    contagious.
    Besides the above mentioned diseases, there are
    dozens of intergumentary system diseases such as
    acn, albinism, herpes, blisters, squamous cell
    carcinoma, melanoma and other skin cncer types
    that can affect people.
    In general all dermatological abnormalities
    can be avoided, it is important to emphasize
    good eating habits, avoid liquor and
    cigarettes, the late nights and long hours of
    sun exposure: and moisturizing creams.

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