Word Meanings - DERMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the dermis or true skin. (more info) 1. Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DERMAL
  Pertaining to the dermis or true skin. (more info) 1. Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.
• INTEGUMENTATION
  The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
• DERMIC
  Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified. Huxley. Dermic remedies , such as act through the skin. (more info) 1. Relating to the derm or skin.
• INTEGUMENTARY
  Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.
• DERMIS
  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.
• INTEGUMENT
  That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically , a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular. (more info) pref. in- in, on + tegere to cover:
• HOMODERMIC
  Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.
• ENDODERMIS
  A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
• EPIDERMIS
  The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• TAXIDERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
• NEURO-EPIDERMAL
  Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.
• SUBEPIDERMAL
  Situated immediately below the epidermis.
• ENDODERMAL; ENDODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the endoderm.
• PLACODERMAL
  Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.
• EPIDERMIC
  Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine , the application of medicine to the skin by friction.
• PACHYDERMAL
  Of or relating to the pachyderms; as, pachydermal dentition.
• ENTODERMAL; ENTODERMIC
  Relating to the entoderm.
• ECTODERMAL; ECTODERMIC
  Of or relating to the ectoderm.
• ENDERMIC
  Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin. Endermic method, that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.
• EPIDERMICAL
  Epidermal.
• SCLERODERMIC; SCLERODERMOUS
  Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates. Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.