Elementary anatomy, physiology and hygiene for higher grammar grades . ?Dm Sb Fig. 49. — Vertical section o( the skin, magnified; a, scarfskin; 6, pigmentcells; o, papillse; 2)m, true skin; e,/, fat cells; jr, sweat glands; /i, outlets? of sweat glands: i, their openings on the surface of the skin ; k, hair follicle;t, hairs projecting from the skin; m, hair papilla; n, hair bulb; o, root ofhair; p, openings of oil glands; Ep, epidermis; Sb, subcutaneous connectiTetissue. face of the skin ; the hair follicles and the ducts of the sweatglands. This living part of the skin is vpry elastic, adapt
Elementary anatomy, physiology and hygiene for higher grammar grades . ?Dm Sb Fig. 49. — Vertical section o( the skin, magnified; a, scarfskin; 6, pigmentcells; o, papillse; 2)m, true skin; e,/, fat cells; jr, sweat glands; /i, outlets? of sweat glands: i, their openings on the surface of the skin ; k, hair follicle;t, hairs projecting from the skin; m, hair papilla; n, hair bulb; o, root ofhair; p, openings of oil glands; Ep, epidermis; Sb, subcutaneous connectiTetissue. face of the skin ; the hair follicles and the ducts of the sweatglands. This living part of the skin is vpry elastic, adaptingitself perfectly to the curves of the body and the bendingof the joints. Notice in the figure that the hairs havetheir roots in this true skin. Each hair grows from apapilla (Fig. 49, ot) ; this papilla is provided with a nerve THE SKIN 213 fiber and a tuft of capillaries. From the surface of thispapilla the hair grows, thus pushing the hair out of thefollicle, so that the hair becomes longer and longer as itgrows at the papilla. The oil glands are located
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