Skin trauma is serious and altering physical injury experienced by the

skin Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation. Other cuticle, animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have diffe ...

or multiple layers of

epithelial tissue Epithelium or epithelial tissue is one of the four basic types of animal tissue, along with connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue. It is a thin, continuous, protective layer of compactly packed cells with a little intercellu ...

s. This can be in the form of cuts, burns, sickness or other injury.

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Dermatologic terminology Cutaneous lesion {{dermatology-stub