What is "dermatitic"

Usage examples of "dermatitic".

So, as always in the summer there, the day's heat came not only from the sun overhead: it came from stones which had long been absorbing it, from paving baking beneath the feet, from asphalt cracking like dermatitic skin to reveal tar shiny beneath.

Cherubic features moulded into a satanic complexion - a desert of flaked, crumbling skin relieved only by oases of dermatitic pimplery : like the scummy death-mask of Troy Donahue, Peter McEnery, or some other noted pretty-boy.