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epidermis

/ep-i-dur-mis/US // ˌɛp ɪˈdɜr mɪs //UK // (ˌɛpɪˈdɜːmɪs) //

表皮层,表皮,表皮细胞,表层

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Anatomy. the outer, nonvascular, nonsensitive layer of the skin, covering the true skin or corium.
    • : Zoology. the outermost living layer of an animal, usually composed of one or more layers of cells.
    • : Botany. a thin layer of cells forming the outer integument of seed plants and ferns.

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Examples

  • Of these coats he rightly supposes the outermost to be merely the epidermis of the middle membrane or testa.

  • Dry is the epidermis,A vein no longer bleeds— And the communis vermisUpon the warrior feeds.

  • Guapo had made the hammocks, having woven the cords out of the epidermis of the leaf of a noble palm, called “tucum.”

  • The lining of the stomach now forms the outer skin, and the former epidermis constitutes the lining of the stomach.

  • This acid tinges the skin of a yellow colour, which does not disappear till the epidermis be changed.