Definitions

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  • adverb In a dermal way; of or to the skin.

Etymologies

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dermal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Most Americans use some form of shampoo, soap, lotion, and antiperspirant every day, and these toxins, applied to the skin, are absorbed dermally.

    Our Deadly, Daily Chemical Cocktail 2011

  • MOCAP (Ethroprop, Prophos): Kills nematodes and soil insects but is very toxic both orally and dermally.

    Chapter 10 1981

  • Note that some insecticides like TEPP and Phosdrin are about as toxic dermally as they are orally.

    Chapter 12 1981

  • Di-syston, and Systox are highly toxic both orally and dermally.

    Chapter 10 1981

  • Again, the Dugong and Manatee are dermally alike, yet extremely different as regards the structure and number of their teeth.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • I don't smoke, I don't tan, and I actually come from a line of dermally gifted women.

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • Jet injectors can deliver vaccines intra-dermally.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • For interactions of boswellia with coumadin flies, nonoliguric the openion to the dermally line, surgions and belly.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • I don't smoke, I don't tan, and I actually come from a line of dermally gifted women.

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • I don't smoke, I don't tan, and I actually come from a line of dermally gifted women.

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

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