The dermis: a thicker inner portion. This is the connective tissue layer of skin. It is important for sensation, protection and thermoregulation. It contains nerves, the blood supply, fibroblasts, etc, as well as sweat glands, which open out onto the surface of the skin, and in some regions, hair.
The largest city in Texas is Houston while its capital is Austin. Texas is bordered by the U.S. states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana but also by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico.
Ironically, when Canadian was born in 1888, it was the site of the first County jail in the Texas Panhandle, holding the worst desperadoes from across the region, or outlaws captured by the Texas Ranger Regiment out of Fort Elliott, 30 miles away in Wheeler County.