The Most Important Functions Of The Skin Are?
(1) To regulate body temperature. The skin which is exposed to the cooling action of the air outside, plays an important part in regulating the loss of heat and maintaining uniform temperature of body. This is dine by the mechanism if dilation and contraction of superficial blood vessels and by the evaporation of water from the body surface. In fact this function if the skin can be compared to that of the radiator of a car. (2)To act as a sense organ. Pain heat, pressure, cold, touch, etc.. are all felt by the skin and conveyed to the brain (3)To protect internal organs against external injury and infection. Many an injury is limited to the skin. But for skin, our bones would be cracking too often. In fact this function of the skin can be compared to that of the radiator of a car. (4)To eliminate waste products through sweat glands (5)To protect the body form harmful rays of the sun by means of pigments of the outer skin.
