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Last updated 30 March 2006

Thin Skin
Thin skin Cajal's trichrome. 50x
1=epidermis 2=papillary layer of
dermis
3=reticular layer of
dermis		 4=subcutaneous layer
(hypodermis)
5=stratum corneum 6=stratum spinosum
7=stratum basale 8=dermal papillae
9=hair follicle 10=arrector pili muscle
11=sebaceous gland 12=eccrine sweat gland
13=bulb and papilla of
hair follicle		 14-hair follicle

Eroschenko (1993) di Fiore's Atlas of Histology 7th
Ed. Plate 46, Fig. 1, p. 127

 

Thin skin (scalp)
Thin skin (scalp) H&E. 50x
1=stratum corneum 2=stratum spinosum
3=dermal papillae 4=reticular layer of
dermis
5=hair follicle 6=sebaceous glands
7=arrector pili muscles 8=hair follicles
9=sweat gland ducts 10=hair bulbs
11=papillae of hair
follicles		 12=secretory sections
of sweat glands
13=skeletal muscle 14=epidermis traversed
by sweat gland duct
15=sebaceous gland 16=sweat gland duct
17=hair (cortex) 18=internal root sheath
of hair follicle
19=connective tissue
sheath of hair follicle		 20=external root
sheath of hair follicle
21=medulla and matrix
of hair		 22=pacinian corpuscles
23=adipose tissue 24=vein
25=arteriole

Eroschenko (1993) di Fiore's Atlas of Histology 7th
Ed. Plate 48, Fig. 1, p. 131

 

Skin pigmentation (melanocytes)
Melanocytes H&E, Toluidine blue. 320x, 600x

M=melanocytes

Burkitt, Young, Heath (1993) Wheater's Functional
Histology 3rd Ed. Fig. 9.5a&c, p. 156

Michael Tam (c) 1999