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See Dermis.

See Dermis.

Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.

See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.

Of or pertaining to the skin.

Inflammation of the skin.

Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.

An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.

Resembling

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.

Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.

A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Relating to the derm or skin.

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.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and hæmal structures; as, the dermohæmal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.