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Revue Medicale De Liege
|March 24, 2015
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The stratum corneum materializes the interface between the body and its environment. Such a structure is influenced by the climate and seasons. A series of physicochemical parameters are involved in this relationship. Among them, the relative humidity, the dew point, the insensible loss of water and the concepts of water-as-ice and the higgledy-piggledy-water.
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