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Outer layer of the skin
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epidermis
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In zoology, the epidermis is an epithelium (sheet of cells ) that covers the body of an eumetazoan ( animal more complex than a sponge ). Eumetazoa have a cavity lined with a similar epithelium, the gastrodermis , which forms a boundary with the epidermis ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Late Latin epidermis , from Greek epidermis "the outer skin," from epi "on" (see epi- ) + derma "skin" (see derma ). Related: Epidermal ; epidermic .
Usage examples of epidermis.
According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.
The epidermis, which is the outer part, the dermis underneath, the subcutis, the layer of fat below that.
Only the tough subdermal cartilage sheath had kept the epidermis from dissolving from the inside out, but that was beginning to liquefy, too.
Spanky bent forward with an agonised shout and the epidermis split further apart across his back.
As his epidermis dripped from the sides of his face, the cannie did a shivery, heel-drumming, horizontal dance in the gutter.
Everything is given some pronounced epidermis, something that comes back at you, and it was starting to get to me.
Once healing had concluded beneath, the artificial epidermis would dry, crack, and flake off, leaving the restored flesh exposed.
No algae symbionts in the epidermis, so they were constantly eating and excreting through a hypertrophied gastrointestinal tract —.
One subject had grown a big genital wart all over her epidermis, distressing to observe, but they’.
The tips of the hyphae touched their damp feet and began to feed on the dead outer layer of the epidermis.
There was some discussion among the more knowledgeable onlookers of nanocarbon tubes embedded in a bonding ceramic or glass matrix, but the dullish appearance of the intruder’s matte epidermis provided little in the way of support or rebuttal for such theory.
Based on organic nanotechnology, the transponder was a nonharmful radioactive chemical that bound itself to an individual's glucose and the middle layers of the epidermis.
The transponder was a nonharmful radioactive chemical that bound itself to the glucose in the blood and a middle layer of epidermis.
The new skin would bond properly, assimilating and overgrowing what original epidermis remained, leaving undetectable the restoration.
By now, the tiny spines on the epidermis of the pahoehoe flow had wreaked a spiteful damage on the soles of her boots.