paget's disease.

Neither one is a laughing matter and plagues individuals in our nation. I'm just raising awareness.

menopause.

No comment.

osteoclasts.

Buzzkill.

osteoclast.

Sometimes the answer is right under our nose and we see it. Other times little people point it out to us because it's closer to their eye level.

There are altogether too many words in this post. Boring.

phalanx.

I think we all know who wins this. As Plato wrote: "the finger is mightier than the sword. Especially if that finger is a scary pink one." Which is why I drew it pink.

vellus hairs.

Some of us just never graduated to having big boy faces.

Arrector pili.

Arrector pili are a bundle of smooth muscle cells that extend from the papillary layer of the dermis to the connective tissue sheath surrounding the hair follicle. When stimulated, the arrector pili muscle contracts, pulling on the follicle and forcing the hair to stand erect.
WHEN YOU GET SCARED YOUR ARRECTOR PILIS DO THEIR JOB AND MAKE YOUR HAIR STAND ON END.

hair matrix.

The weird thing is I didn't even have to really draw it. I just traced a picture of a real hair cross-section. I know, right?

liposuction.

Sometimes it doesn't matter what's being said, it matters who's saying it.

skin receptors.

May or may not have been reaching on this one.

cholecalciferol.

The only truly universal language is love. And guns.

adrenocorticotrophic hormone.

I was never this guy, I just know of people like this. Read about them and stuff.

dermal papillae.

Usually the ones who don't get it are the loudest, most verbal of the group.

integumentary system.

The black and white was my own personal rebellion since my wife won't let me join the "occupy" movement. "When you can tell me what the whole occupy thing means, you can go" she said, being completely unreasonable. Pay no attention to the fact that "cutaneous" is misspelled.

keratinocytes.

Made the annoying part up, that isn't in the textbook. It's implied though.