Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging or relating to or resembling the epidermis; covering the skin; epidermal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
  • adjective (Med.) the application of medicine to the skin by friction.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to the epidermis or to the skin or bark

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula

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Examples

  • In any case, if we find ourselves landless in the crowded city of tomorrow, perhaps amidst the future ultramegametropolis of New Tokyo-Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Manila, we can cultivate our own epidermic Eden.

    Michael Jackson as Landscape Architecture 2008

  • In any case, if we find ourselves landless in the crowded city of tomorrow, perhaps amidst the future ultramegametropolis of New Tokyo-Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Manila, we can cultivate our own epidermic Eden.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • The Lesotho government is expected to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to combat the epidermic.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Center's (Eyverkinasa), which is a recombinant streptokinase used in case of a heart attack; (Evermin), which is an epidermic growth factor; and Interferon.

    Castro, Colombian Businessmen Review Trade 1994

  • This is leading to a loss of genetic resources, and a risk of losing the planted trees in the event of a disease or insect epidermic.

    Chapter 4 1993

  • We have obtained an epidermic growth factor and it is being handled by one or two transnationals.

    Part IV of Interview With Fidel Castro 1992

  • We control the technology of the epidermic growth factor-used for burns, skin graphs, and many other applications and is also a highly expensive product-and it came from our research centers.

    Proceedings of Fourth PCC Congress Reported 1991

  • The same thing will be done with epidermic growth factor; it will be produced by the genetic engineering center.

    Castro's Science Day Ceremony Speech 1990

  • There are laboratories abroad that have compared the two, and our epidermic growth factor is much more, several times more effective than the multinational firm 's epidermic growth factor.

    Castro Gives Speech at `Pedagogy 90' Congress 1990

  • A multinational firm has the epidermic growth factor.

    Castro Gives Speech at `Pedagogy 90' Congress 1990

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