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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The deepest layer of the epidermis, from which the outer layers develop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anatomy) The innermost layer of the epidermis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the innermost layer of the epidermis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Marcello Malpighi.]
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