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  2. Unpolarized light - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, a polarizer acts on an unpolarized beam or arbitrarily polarized beam to create one which is polarized. Unpolarized light can be described as a mixture of two independent oppositely polarized streams, each with half the intensity. [3] [4] Light is said to be partially polarized when there is more power in one of these streams than ...

  3. Human skin - Wikipedia

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    The human skin is the outer covering of the body and is the largest organ of the integumentary system. The skin has up to seven layers of ectodermal tissue guarding muscles, bones, ligaments and internal organs. Human skin is similar to most of the other mammals' skin, and it is very similar to pig skin.

  4. Near-infrared window in biological tissue - Wikipedia

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    Melanin is a chromophore that exists in the human epidermal layer of skin responsible for protection from harmful UV radiation. When melanocytes are stimulated by solar radiation, melanin is produced. [7] Melanin is one of the major absorbers of light in some biological tissue (although its contribution is smaller than other components).

  5. Epidermis - Wikipedia

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    The epidermis is the outermost of the three layers that comprise the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis. [1] The epidermal layer provides a barrier to infection from environmental pathogens [2] and regulates the amount of water released from the body into the atmosphere through transepidermal water loss.

  6. Common dye turns skin invisible to see the organs inside - AOL

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    The dye is a food colouring called tartrazine, used it for its yellowish colour. But that same colour means that it absorbs light, especially blue and ultraviolet light.

  7. Epithelial polarity - Wikipedia

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    How epithelial cells adopt particular shapes is poorly understood, but it must involve spatial control of the actin cytoskeleton, which is central to cell shape in all plant cells. Apocrine cells, showing apical snouts towards the lumen. Apical snouts, also called apical blebs, are small protrusions

  8. Dermis - Wikipedia

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    The dermis is composed of three major types of cells: [3] fibroblasts, macrophages, and mast cells.. Apart from these cells, the dermis is also composed of matrix components such as collagen (which provides strength), elastin (which provides elasticity), and extrafibrillar matrix, an extracellular gel-like substance primarily composed of glycosaminoglycans (most notably hyaluronan ...

  9. Birefringence - Wikipedia

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    Light from the source is polarized in the x direction after passing through the first polarizer, but above the specimen is a polarizer (a so-called analyzer) oriented in the y direction. Therefore, no light from the source will be accepted by the analyzer, and the field will appear dark.