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What is the term for wrinkled skin that has been in water too long?
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Pruney or wrinkled skin due to prolonged exposure to water is often referred to as "pruney fingers" or "waterlogged skin." This temporary condition is caused by the outer layer of skin absorbing water and swelling, which then causes the skin to wrinkle or pucker.
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Why do your fingers and toes appeared wrinkled when wet for a long time?
You have natural oils on your skin that at first repels the water. But if you are in the water long enough, the oils disappear and leave your fingers and toes wrinkled. They have absorbed water but it will go away soon after you dry.
What happens to your skin to make it wrinkled?
It is absorbing water.
Why is the skin on the palms of your hands wrinkled?
because we are all old ladies
Why do elephants have wrinkled skin?
Wrinkled skin of the elephants help them to maintain the body temperature.
Why does a newborn baby have wrinkly skin?
They are wrinkled because they've been in amniotic fluid for 9 months. It's like getting wrinkly skin from sitting in the bathtub too long.
What causes fingers to look wrinkled after soaking in warter?
Water enters the cells in the skin.
Do fingers and toes wrinkle after prolonged in seawater?
because of exosmosis happen between water inside and outsude
How would taking in too much water be a disadventage to a cell?
The cell could swell up until it bursts. That's why your skin gets wrinkled if you stay in water too long -- your cells are taking in the water.
How is skin wrinkled?
people get old and fat and there skin gets wider
How do you determine the value of 6 numbers if the mean is 48?
you get wrinkled skin when you take a bath because there is a type of oil on your skin that makes your skin smooth and when that oil rubs off in the water your skin gets wrinkly.
Is skin getting wrinkled a physical change?
Yes.
Why walrus has thick wrinkled skin?
because it is a mammal
