dermat-

American  

1. variant of dermato- before a vowel.

   dermatitis.

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Usage

What does dermat- mean? Dermat- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “skin.” It is used in some medical and scientific terms.Dermat- comes from the Greek dérma, meaning “skin.”Dermat- is a variant of dermato-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use dermato- article.Other variants of dermat- and dermato- are dermo- and derm-. Closely related to dermato- are the combining forms -derm, -derma, -dermatous, and -dermis. Learn more about their specific applications at our Words That Use articles for the forms.

Example Sentences

And Dermat, pausing for a moment, said, as if communing with himself— "This is surely an evil plight: for if I run to the other side, the foreigner, being the more enraged for seeing me, will strike with greater fury, and I may not overtake the prince alive; and if I cast my spear, I may strike the wrong man!"

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Dermat shouted to him to hold his hand and not slay the king's son; and as he spoke he rushed down the slope and across the ford, to save the young hero.

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"Thy noble son, Ficna," returned Dermat, "fought single-handed against the foreigners."

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I and Fatha will of a certainty keep the enemy at bay," replied Dermat; and he bade them farewell for a time, and was about to return to the ford: but Conan Mail, with a groan, said— "Miserable was the hour when I came to this palace, and cold and comfortless is the clay on which I sit—the clay of the Island of the Torrent.

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Of those who were chosen to go with Finn, the chief men were Dermat O'Dyna; Gaul Mac Morna; Oscar, the son of Oisin; Aed Beg, the son of Finn; Fergus Finnvel, the poet; the three sons of Encarda; and Feradach and Foltlebar, the two sons of the king of Innia.

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