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Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified. Huxley. Dermic remedies (Med.), such as act through the skin.

Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

Of or relating to the ectoderm.

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.

By the endermic method; as, applied endermically.

Of or pertaining to the endoderm.

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

Relating to the entoderm.

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

Epidermal. [R.]

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin. Hypodermic medication, the application of remedies under the epidermis, usually by means of a small syringe, called the hypodermic syringe. -- Hyp`o*der"mic*al*ly, adv.

Same as Mesodermal.

Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.

Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.

, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.

rmation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

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

Endermic.

Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.