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DERMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does derma mean?
• DERMA (noun)
The noun DERMA has 1 sense:
1. the deep vascular inner layer of the skin
Familiarity information: DERMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The deep vascular inner layer of the skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("derma" is a kind of...):
stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))
Holonyms ("derma" is a part of...):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
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