Skin

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The skin, the largest body organ, is located at the interface between the inside and the outside of the body. It is a protective, sensory, and endocrine organ. Accumulating evidence also suggest it has a critical role in the whole body's homeostasis. [1] Historically, the skin has also been (and is often) a pretense for arbitrary distinctions between, i.e. racism, a is also the subject

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  1. Tobin DJ (2006). "Biochemistry of human skin--our brain on the outside". Chem Soc Rev 35: 52–67. PMID 16365642.