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Skin Aging

"Skin Aging" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The process of aging due to changes in the structure and elasticity of the skin over time. It may be a part of physiological aging or it may be due to the effects of ultraviolet radiation, usually through exposure to sunlight.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Skin Aging" by people in this website by year, and whether "Skin Aging" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 25 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2009
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