Like, when you lean on a counter then you are has an indentation for a few minutes.
Is it because of water retention?
In: Biology
Imagine a partially soaked sponge on a countertop and you’ve decided to poke it. It indents a bit due to being compressed and maybe some water comes out. When you remove your finger the sponge springs back to its original shape and absorbs the water that leaked out earlier. Now imagine that the water is blood and the sponge is a collective of your individual cells. Your skin is an organ and it’s highly vascularized (full of blood), so when it’s indented the blood leaves the area, but when the pressure is released all the blood rushes back in over the area that was compressed.
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