epidermic
Americanadjective
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“Well, with my new jeans life was entirely exterior … I had achieved epidermic self-awareness.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2016
We have still to describe, in connection with the horse, some epidermic tissues, which are known as chestnuts.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Uro-Skinneri sounds like something medical and epidermic, but then we're informed that its sepals and petals Are "reticulated in tender brown and broad rosy-mauve," which immediately sends one "off the metals."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892 by Various
Circumscribed epidermic elevations containing pus; as, for example, the pustules of acne, of impetigo, and of sycosis.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Tor′toise-shell, the horny epidermic plate of a species of turtle.—adj. of the colour of the foregoing, mottled in yellow and black.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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