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The epidermis is a very large area of skin that is made of dead skin cells.
Scientists estimate that the human body is made up of around 10 trillion cells in total. Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells
Of course, this estimate can vary tremendously according to a person's size. The important thing is that you have a lot of skin cells.
Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour
period, you lose almost a million skin cells [source: Boston Globe].
Where do they all go? The dust that collects on your tables, TV, windowsills and on those picture frames that are so hard to get clean is made mostly from dead human skin cells. In other words, your house is filled with former bits of yourself. In one year, you'll shed more than 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of dead skin.
It gets even grosser: Your house is also filled with trillions of microscopic life forms called dust mites that eat your old dead skin. Imagine the depth of dead cells you would have to walk through without them!
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What is the technical name for a skin cell?
Most of the skin is composed of the dermis which is made up mostly of dense irregular connect tissue. The cells about it are dead cells called the epidermis.
Where in the body would you find a glial cell?
Every where there isn't a place in your body where you wont find nerve cells.
Which cells have only 23 unpaired chromosomes?
The only place you would be able to find a cell with 23 chromosomes would be in the sex cells (sperm cells of egg cells). There are 46 chromosomes in the human body. This is because when a sperm cell fertilises the egg cell, both with 23 single chromosomes, they join to make 46.
Which body part would you find cells with hair like structures?
In the airways of the lungs, cells have waving hair-like structures called cilia. They sweep dirt and germs out of the airways
Where in your body do you find DNA?
You can find DNA inside the nucleus of every one of your trillions of cells.
Are blood cells cells you would find in the human body?
Yes. You will find an blood cell in an animal and human body only.
What would you find at a crime scene?
a dead body
What do you do if you find a dead body in your house?
I would call 911
Where would you find diploid and haploids in the human body?
All cells except sex cells are diploid. And sex cells are haploid.
Where would you find red blood cells in the body?
blood & bone marrow
In which body part would you find cells with hair like structures?
it is lungs
In body part would you find cells with hair like structures?
it is lungs
In which body part would you find cells with hair-like structure?
mouth
Is it true that storage wars found a dead body?
yes it is very possible to find a dead body in a storage unit. But that would be very disgusting
What treatment eradicates every cancer cell in the body?
If you could find that treatment (and it did not cause the death of all the cells in the body, and death of the individual) then you would be the richest, most famous person in the world. So a treatment that kills all the cancer cells in the body would probably kill all the cells in the body and then you would be dead. Maybe if the Star Trek transporter were real, it could be used along with the ability to sequence every cell in the body to filter out cancer cells. You begin in one place with cancer cells in your body. You are transported to another place with the cancer cells removed and then are cancer free... My answer is that while this is possible in science fiction, it may not be possible in real life.
Where on a dead body would you expect to find maggots?
Their mouth because of suliva left in it.
If your body was 100 percent water would you be sensitive to touch?
If your body was 100% water you would be dead. In fact, not only would you be dead but it would be a great leap of faith to describe you as a body or a corpse; thus, I find it quite extraordinary that you have asked such a question. But no, no you wouldn't.
