- a word derived from epidermis.
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“Well, with my new jeans life was entirely exterior … I had achieved epidermic self-awareness.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2016
As found in epidermic scrapings of ringworm, showing mycelium and spores.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Erythrasma is an extremely rare disease, due to the presence and growth in the epidermic structures of the vegetable parasite—the microsporon minutissimum.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
A, Early condition before the lens is deposited, showing the folding of the epidermic cell-layer into three.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Groups of sensitive nerve cells separate from the ordinary epidermic cells; they retire into the more protected tissue of the mesodermic under-skin, and form special neural ganglia there.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August