Crossword-Solution: DERMIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dermis | n. | The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DERMIS | anagram | DIMERS |
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Sentences with DERMIS (5)
Seiffert examined a case of this nature in a young man of nineteen, and, contrary to Kopp's supposition, found that in some skin from over the left second rib the elastic fibers were quite normal, but there was transformation of the connective tissue of the dermis into an unformed tissue like a myxoma, with total disappearance of the connective-tissue bundles.
The skin is remarkably complex in its structure, and is divided into two distinct layers, which may be readily separated: the deeper layer,—the true skin, dermis, or corium; and the superficial layer, or outer skin,—the epidermis, cuticle, or scarf skin.
From this coil the tube passes upwards through the dermis in a wavy course until it reaches the cuticle, which it penetrates with a number of spiral turns, at last opening on the surface.
The convoluted gland is seen surrounded with big fat-cells, and may be traced through the dermis to its outlet in the horny layers of the epidermis.
Proceeding downwards, we have--(first) the outer skin, scarf-skin or cuticle; (second) a second layer or skin called the _rete mucosum_, forming the epidermis; (third) papillary layer; (fourth) the corium layer, forming the dermis.
Quotes with DERMIS (2)
You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on.
Some people say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. In actuality, you have to make an incision through his skin, both dermis and epidermis, then carefully sever and separate the sternum. Only upon viewing the exposed thoracic cavity can you reach the heart--if indeed the male of the species actually possesses such an organ.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1947–2019).