{"id":141743,"key":"TissueDB/Materials/Animal_Skin","title":"TissueDB/Materials/Animal Skin","latest":{"id":1260839,"timestamp":"2026-08-16T04:28:12Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{TissueDB Material Layout\n| lead_paragraph = '''Animal skin''' is ex vivo full-thickness skin from an animal specimen — most often porcine (pig) skin from a butcher — used in surgical simulation to give realistic skin texture, colour, suture hold and tissue-handling feel for basic surgical skills such as suturing, incision and wound closure. Because it is real integument, fresh or frozen animal skin reproduces the epidermis, dermis and adherent subcutaneous layer and their plane-by-plane separation more faithfully than a synthetic skin pad; its trade-offs are that it is perishable, single-use, and its thickness and texture vary with the source animal and cut. It is bought fresh or frozen and used as a skin-and-subcutaneous substrate laid over a trainer or on its own for suturing practice.\n| synonyms_text = Common names: Pig skin, pork skin, porcine skin, pork rind, pigskin, animal integument. The specific animal is recorded in the notes, not the class title. ''Forms:'' fresh animal skin, frozen animal skin. ''Variants:'' porcine (pig) skin is the usual form; goat or lamb skin is used as an alternative animal-skin source. ''Regional (pork):'' piel de cerdo (ES), couenne de porc (FR), Schweinehaut (DE), cotenna di maiale (IT), varkenshuid (NL).\n| synonyms = animal skin; animal integument\n| alternative-spellings = Animal Skin; animal skin; pig skin; Pig Skin; pigskin; Pigskin; Pork Skin; pork skin\n| regional-names = piel animal (Spanish)\n| product-names = fresh animal skin; frozen animal skin; full-thickness animal skin; glycerol-preserved animal skin\n| material-variants = porcine (pig) skin; pig skin; pork skin; pork rind; pigskin; goat skin; lamb skin\n| medical-variants = Skin; Dermis; Corium; Epidermis; Subcutaneous Tissue; Fascia\n| legacy-titles = Pork Skin\n| tissues_rows = <tr>\n<td>[[TissueDB/Tissues/Skin|Skin]]</td>\n<td></td>\n<td></td>\n<td>[[TissueDB/Simulators/Cricothyrotomy Simulator (Muller)|Cricothyrotomy Simulator (Muller)]]</td>\n<td>Porcine skin placed over the laryngeal structures of the Strategic Operations 3-in-1 TCCC manikin as the external skin layer for cricothyrotomy incision. It gives the scalpel incision surface for the skin incision of the scalpel–finger–bougie technique, and the manikin is reset the same way every time, with a new section of porcine skin (US$1) covering the structures for each participant (Muller et al. 2020, pp. e1780, e1782). Exact cut (belly, shoulder, or other) not disambiguated in source.<ref name=\"muller2020\">Muller KL, Facciolla CA, Monti J, Cronin A. \"Impact of Succinct Training on Open Cricothyrotomy Performance: A Randomized, Prospective, Observational Study of U.S. Army First Responders.\" ''Military Medicine''. 2020;185(9–10):e1779–e1786. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaa035 10.1093/milmed/usaa035]. PMID 32567654.</ref></td>\n</tr>\n| overview = Animal skin is sourced fresh or frozen from a butcher as full-thickness skin, usually porcine. Being real integument it needs no preparation beyond trimming and, optionally, glycerol preservation, and it gives a cutting, suturing and handling feel a synthetic skin pad cannot; the trade-off is that thickness and texture vary with the source animal and cut, and it is perishable. It is single-use — refrigerate or freeze until the session and discard via biological-waste protocol afterwards.\n| references = <references />\n| hero_image = Raw pork skin.jpg\n| hero_image_license = CC0\n}}\n\n{{Page data\n| keywords = animal skin, pig skin, pork skin, porcine skin, ex vivo skin, suturing practice, skin substrate, wound closure, skin simulation\n| description = Animal skin — ex vivo full-thickness porcine (or other animal) skin used as a real-integument substrate for human skin, subcutaneous tissue and fascia in surgical skills simulation (suturing, incision, wound closure).\n}}\n\n[[Category:TissueDB]]"}