Stretch marks occur when

A) the skin is stretched in normal movements.
B) surgical incisions are made perpendicular to the skin's lines of cleavage.
C) the skin is so extensively stretched that its elastic limits are exceeded.
D) athletes overextend a muscle.
E) individual epidermal layers separate.


C

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