The phrase "frail skin" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe skin that is unusually thin or delicate, and is prone to bruising and other damage. For example, "His frail skin was easily hurt, so he had to be careful about his activities."
Patients with existing skin problems, severe diaphoresis or frail skin are excluded from the study, so results will not be generalisable to these groups.
It is more difficult to achieve successful surgical outcome in older people (adults aged over 60 years), because of a higher prevalence of co-morbidities resulting in lower bone density, frail skin and impaired wound healing.
This is a modification of "total contact casting" used extensively and successfully for more than 20 years in treating leg ulcers in diabetics who have frail skin [ 22- 24].
Individuals with frail, sensitive skin or with skin diseases may preferably have to use high-quality products, equipped with superabsorbent polymers and water vapor permeable back sheets, to minimize the risk of skin complications.
The blunt muzzle is terrifyingly close to the frail blue-white skin of the exposed breast.
A photograph posted on the Xinhua Web site of the two men shaking hands shows Mr. Kim as a frail man, his skin sagging and his eyes staring dimly into the distance.
Without the health care he needs, Mustafa has become frail and his skin is yellow.
Their bodies are frail and their skin pale and yellow, a slight shake often took over so many children and adult bodies due to the lack of sugar in their blood.
In two cases this was because of early-stage disease (T1N0), and in nine patients because patients were assessed as too frail to tolerate skin toxicity from wide-field treatment.
People are naturally uneasy with the asymmetry between the hot vampire and the young frail human (whose translucent skin and klutzy limbs occupy a lot of real estate in the books).
The first 24 hours of media coverage after the King of Pop was pronounced dead focused primarily on drug use, needle marks on his skin, his frail white body, years of weird behavior and gossip at his ugliest with speculations about what drugs he might been addicted to, while famous doctors and even clergy gabbed sound bites and grabbed their 15 minutes of fame on the cable news programs.
