Corns and callosities are produced if an area of the skin is subjected to repeated friction as with ill-fitting/tight shoes or with specific occupational activity.A corn/ callosity consists of an area of thickening of the stratum corneum (the most superficial layer of the skin) which is subjected to repeated friction. If the area of thickening [...]
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Chicken Pox Information manifests with an eruption of well-formed tense vesicles, which on the first day may be only a few but increase in number within the next few days to become generalised. Each vesicle is characteristically surrounded by a small zone of redness and there is a tendency for the vesicles to be concentrated [...]
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Normally the hairs are firmly attached to the skin by means of the hair roots. It is therefore not easy to pull a hair out of the skin without applying an adequate amount of force. Pulling a strand of hair out of the skin causes pain. The amount of force required to pull a hair [...]
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This type of baldness is dependent on the male sex hormones and heredity. It is inherited from the parents and most people who manifest male-type baldness inherit this tendency from the father or the mother. Sometimes the father may not manifest the baldness but other male members in the father’s family may have this type [...]
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