Main Functions
- Protect the body’s internal living tissues and organs
- Protect against invasion by infectious organisms
- Protect the body from dehydration
- Protect the body against abrupt changes in temperature, maintain homeostasis
- Help excrete waste materials through perspiration
- Act as a receptor for touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold
- Protect the body against sunburns by secreting melanin
- Generate vitamin D through exposure to ultrivilent light
- Store water, fat, glucose, and vitamin D
- Maintenance of the body form
- Formation of new cells from stratum germination to repair minor injuries