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Why skin is known as "Jack of all trades"?

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Skin is a complex organ that performs many functions in the body e.g: it protects the body by covering all the muscles and other tissues, maintains the body optimal temperature in extreme climatic conditions, helps as excretory organ removing wastes through sweating. Hence it is called “The Jack of all trades”, which means that it carries out different functions.

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