Crossword-Solution: DERM 4 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And, just as the derm of the hair skin produces upon its outer surface layer upon layer of horny cells (epiderm), which protect the sensitive and vascular derm, so, likewise, in the foot the pododerm produces over its entire surface soft cells, which, pushed away by more recent cells forming beneath, lose moisture by evaporation and are rapidly transformed into the corneous material which we call the hoof.

Etym: [See Derm, n.] Defn: A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc.

See Derm.] (Anat.) Defn: The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon.

See Sarco-, and Derm.] (Bot.) (a) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.

The quarter of Dermèche, near the sea, whose name recalls the Latin _Thermis_ or _Thermas_, is remarkable for the imposing remains of the baths (_thermae_) of Antoninus.