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the medical field where your largest organ finally gets the attention it's been screaming for.
means The branch of medicine concerned with the skin, hair, nails, and their diseases and treatment.
from Built from Greek 'derma' (skin) and '-logia' (the study of), 'derma' itself tracing back to a root meaning 'to flay' or 'to skin' — fittingly literal. The compound 'dermatology' is a 19th-century scientific coinage, assembled as the field organized itself into a proper specialty.
- biggest organ
- Skin covers about 20 square feet on adults
- daily shed
- You lose roughly 40,000 skin cells every hour
- mole math
- Dermatologists track moles by the ABCDE rule
- ancient roots
- Egyptians treated skin with honey and milk baths
- sun warden
- Most skin cancers are caught early and curable
for instance
henry vandyke blue — dermatologist who first described blue nevus in 1835, a common benign skin lesion
jean-louis alibert — french dermatologist who first described mycosis fungoides in 1806, establishing dermatology as a distinct specialty