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Epidermis

"Epidermis" 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 external, nonvascular layer of the skin. It is made up, from within outward, of five layers of EPITHELIUM: (1) basal layer (stratum basale epidermidis); (2) spinous layer (stratum spinosum epidermidis); (3) granular layer (stratum granulosum epidermidis); (4) clear layer (stratum lucidum epidermidis); and (5) horny layer (stratum corneum epidermidis).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Epidermis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Epidermis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 74 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2003
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