epidermic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Groups of sensitive nerve cells separate from the ordinary epidermic cells; they retire into the more protected tissue of the mesodermic under-skin, and form special neural ganglia there.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Mysticism is the other end of the magnet of which Catullus and his band, brutal and purely epidermic poets, knew only the sensual pole.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
These, too, begin as sacs formed by infoldings of the epidermis; and while their parts are developing they are joined from within by nervous structures which were themselves epidermic in origin.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
We have still to describe, in connection with the horse, some epidermic tissues, which are known as chestnuts.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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