Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as derma.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The integument of animal; the skin.
  • noun (Anat.) See Dermis.

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  • noun usually plural guts
  • noun slang A dermatologist.
  • noun anatomy The integument of animal; the skin.
  • noun Alternative form of dermis.

Etymologies

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Dutch darm ("intestine") through Afrikaans derm ("intestine")

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Abbreviation

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Ancient Greek δέρμα (derma, "skin").

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Examples

  • [mysqld-5. 0.22] SELECT command denied to user 'derm'@'xx. xxx.xx.xxx' for table 'phpbb_users'

    phpBB.com Lumpy Burgertushie 2010

  • [mysqld-5. 0.22] SELECT command denied to user 'derm'@'xx. xxx.xx.xxx' for table 'phpbb_users'

    phpBB.com teabag99 2010

  • Cath said unhappily, thumbing a fresh derm against her wrist.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • I have to go to the derm every six months (fam history of melanoma, many, many nevi) I think I could keep my Dermatologist in business with harvesting my various atypical nevi, alone.

    Mohs Nose Woes - Part 2 aka TBTAM 2008

  • She opened the purse and withdrew a paperbacked bub - ble with a blue derm inside.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • Woodrow said, reaching out to pat the hairy pachy - derm.

    Stalling 2010

  • I have a question tho .. when the derm was looking at it before the biopsy, she noticed a small kind of flat spot on the right side of my nose .. you can barely see it .. she said at first ..

    Mohs Nose Woes - Part 2 aka TBTAM 2008

  • Thank you also to both sisters Lisa Reed for reading; Colbert for volunteering as first derm patient at seven years old.

    THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010

  • Thank you also to both sisters Lisa Reed for reading; Colbert for volunteering as first derm patient at seven years old.

    THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010

  • Thank you also to both sisters Lisa Reed for reading; Colbert for volunteering as first derm patient at seven years old.

    THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010

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