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Epidermic   Listen
adjective
Epidermic  adj.  Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
Epidermic administration of medicine (Med.), the application of medicine to the skin by friction.





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"Epidermic" Quotes from Famous Books



... internal structure is simple, but in others it is highly complex; thus M. Lucaze-Duthiers[703] has figured in the common ink-gall no less than seven concentric layers, composed of distinct tissue, {283} namely, the epidermic, sub-epidermic, spongy, intermediate, and the hard protective layer formed of curiously thickened woody cells, and, lastly, the central mass abounding with starch-granules ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Epidermic" :   cuticular, epidermis, cuticle, dermal, epidermal


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