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  2. Goose bumps - Wikipedia

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    Goose bumps, goosebumps or goose pimples [1] are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal.

  3. Cutis (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    Cutis, often termed the "true skin", is composed of the epidermis and the dermis. [1] The dermis contains blood vessels, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, and hair follicles. [2] The epidermis and the dermis contain sensory nerve endings to detect changes in the environment. [2] The cutis is the layer located above the subcutis. [2

  4. Anserine - Wikipedia

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    Anserine (β-alanyl-3-methylhistidine) is a dipeptide containing β-alanine and 3-methylhistidine. [1] Anserine is a derivative of carnosine, which has been methylated. [2]Both anserine and carnosine chelate copper. [3]

  5. Skin - Wikipedia

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    The word skin originally only referred to dressed and tanned animal hide and the usual word for human skin was hide. Skin is a borrowing from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur", ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-, meaning "to cut" (probably a reference to the fact that in those times animal hide was commonly cut off to be used as garment).

  6. Anserinae - Wikipedia

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    The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae.It includes the swans and the true geese.Under alternative systematical concepts (see e.g., Terres & NAS, 1991), it is split into two subfamilies, the Anserinae contain the geese and the ducks, while the Cygninae contain the swans.

  7. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.

  8. Cutis - Wikipedia

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    Cutis may refer to several unrelated biological structures: Cutis (anatomy), the outermost layers of skin; Cutis (mycology), a type of pileipellis in a fungus; Other

  9. List of Anseriformes - Wikipedia

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    Subtribe Anserina Vigors 1825 fide Gray. Genus Branta Scopoli 1769 (black geese) Phylogeny of Branta [8] B. bernicla (Leucopareia) B. ruficollis (Leucoblepharon)