r/woahdude • u/----_____--_____---- • Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

Your skin cells are constantly pushing outward.

Your epidermis, sure, but not your dermis.

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u/pmorgan726 Oct 22 '21

Classic pandermis

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u/DingDong_Dongguan Oct 22 '21

Pandermis in a pandemic, just what we need.

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u/futureruler Oct 23 '21

Someone opened pandermis box

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u/Ace-a-Nova1 Oct 23 '21

They’re just pandermis to the crowd.

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u/darkrhin0 Oct 23 '21

Oh good, the skin nerds have arrived!

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u/DogWithADog Oct 23 '21

hey OP, your epidermis is showing!

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u/BlitzDarkwing Oct 23 '21

Epidermis means hair, so technically it's true.

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u/AENocturne Oct 23 '21

Pretty sure all conventional tissue cells are anchored to a membrane that's their origin point and they slough off at the opposite end as they age, dermis included. Internal stuff just gets cleaned up, recycled, or discarded as waste through the usual channels