Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The substance of skin or mucous membrane; the corium, derma, or true skin, and the corresponding deep part of mucous membrane, as distinguished from epidermis or epithelium. See cut under skin.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, "in") δέρος (deros) (alternative form of δέρμα (derma, "skin")). (Wiktionary)
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“The skin of Vertebrate animals consists of two Layers: an outer layer (the epidermis or ecteron), and an inner layer (the dermis or enderon).”
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