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The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. -- Ec`ter*on"ic, a.

The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

e, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.

Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

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.

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

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

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n.