Skin Part1

The tough, waterproof outer sublayer of the skin, made up of dead cells and contains the protein called keratin.

The transparent, barely discernible sublayer just below the stratum corneum. It is also called the transparent layer. It is found in the thickened parts of the epidermis (as of the palms or the soles of the feet)

the grainy sublayer between the stratum lucidum and stratum spinosum, also called the granular layer.

•the spiny sublayer
•just below the stratum ganulosum
•contains cells that create an immune response to protect the body against foreign bodies that get through the first three outer sublayers of skin.

It is also called the prickle cell layer because of the spikes all around the cell. This cell layer is capable of division or mitosis.

the innermost sublayer of skin, which butts against the loose connective tissue of the dermis; forms epidermal ridges that connect with the dermis.

Gives the stratum corneum its distinctive pattern, as in a fingerprint, also called the basal layer.
•The basal layer consists of a single row of columnar or cuboidal epithelial cells that continually divide and replace the rest of the epidermis as it wears away.