Word Meanings - EPIDERMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.

EPIDERMIS
The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
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
CUTICULAR
Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.
EPIDERMIC
Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine , the application of medicine to the skin by friction.
EPIDERMICAL
Epidermal.
SUBCUTICULAR
Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.
ENEPIDERMIC
Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach