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The tips of your fingers and the soles of your feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum. (STRAH-tum KOR-nee-um. Stratum corneum is Latin for "horny layer," but this is something I would just as soon not mention to a bunch of teenagers.)
When this layer of skin soaks for a long time, it absorbs water and expands. Trouble is, on your fingers and toes there's no place for it to expand TO. So it just buckles, like asphalt roads do sometimes in the summer sun.
Copyright 1993 Chicago Reader
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