– where does skin in your body stop being skin? Is the roof of the mouth skin? The back of the throat? How does skin attach and transition to non-skin flesh?

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– where does skin in your body stop being skin? Is the roof of the mouth skin? The back of the throat? How does skin attach and transition to non-skin flesh?

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So people have the main thing covered, but it’s worth knowing that our bodies are GREAT at making chemical gradients. Like “industrial processes can’t come close” levels of organizing stuff into more and less of one thing or another. There isn’t, for instance, a defined layer at which your fingernails stop being flesh and become nails.

So to answer your question, there’s different skin configurations that become less skin and more whatever else (mucus membrane, soft tissue) over a gradient of layers until they’re that other thing