Word Meanings - EPIDERMIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine , the application of medicine to the skin by friction.

Related words: (words related to EPIDERMIC)

• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• FRICTIONAL
  Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase
• EPIDERMIC
  Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine , the application of medicine to the skin by friction.
• EPIDERMICAL
  Epidermal.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• EPIDERMAL
  Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
• MEDICINE
  A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
• ADMINISTRATION
  1. The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece
• CONNECTION
  1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
• FRICTION
  The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion. 3. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard
• FRICTIONLESS
  Having no friction.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• AFFRICTION
  The act of rubbing against.
• NEURO-EPIDERMAL
  Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.
• ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION
  An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.
• SUBEPIDERMAL
  Situated immediately below the epidermis.
• MALADMINISTRATION
  Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.
• ANTIFRICTION
  Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.