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A surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
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dermatome
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n. a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
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Etymology 1 n. An instrument used surgically to remove a thin slice of skin for grafting Etymology 2 n. 1 An area of skin which is innervated by afferent nerve fibers coming to a single posterior spinal root 2 The cutis plate.
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A dermatome is an area of skin that is mainly supplied by a single spinal nerve . There are 8 cervical nerves (C1 being an exception with no dermatome), 12 thoracic nerves , 5 lumbar nerves and 5 sacral nerves . Each of these nerves relays sensation (including ...