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Collagen milieu
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dermis
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Word definitions for dermis in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dermis \Der"mis\, n. [NL. See Derm .] (Anat.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin , derm , derma , corium , cutis , and enderon . See Skin , and Illust. in Appendix. [1913 Webster] ||
WordNet
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n. the deep vascular inner layer of the skin [syn: corium , derma ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The DermIS ( Dermatology Internet Service or Dermatology Information System ) is a web site providing images and information on diagnosis in dermatology. It is a project of the Department of Clinical Social Medicine of the University of Heidelberg and the ...
Usage examples of dermis.
The epidermis, which is the outer part, the dermis underneath, the subcutis, the layer of fat below that.
Stratum lucidum, stratum basale, dermis, sebaceous glands—all of it, everything needed to grow skin grafts.
The flesh beneath, or dermis, looked like soggy brown corrugated paper stained with dark ink.
The skin with each of its folds, wrinkles, and scars, with its velvety plains, its forest of hairs, the dermis, the bosom, the pudenda, having become a sumptuous damask, and the breasts, the nails, the horny formations under the heel, the threads of the lashes, the watery substance of the eyes, the flesh of the lips, the thin spine of the back, the architecture of the bones, everything reduced to sandy powder, though nothing had lost its own form or respective placement, the legs emptied and limp as a boot, their flesh lying flat like a chasuble with all the scarlet embroidery of the veins, the engraved pile of the viscera, the intense and mucous ruby of the heart, the pearly file of even teeth arranged like a necklace, with the tongue as a pink-and-blue pendant, the fingers in a row like tapers, the seal of the navel reknotting the threads of the unrolled carpet of the belly .
We are fairly sure that the condition is not life-threatening, except when an attempt is made to administer medication orally, by subcutaneous injection, or by external application and massage into the dermis.