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单词 epidermis
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epidermisn.

/ɛpɪˈdəːmɪs/
Etymology: < modern Latin epidermis, < Greek ἐπιδερμίς, < ἐπί upon + δέρμα skin.
1.
a. Anatomy. The outer (non-vascular) layer of the skin of animals; the cuticle or scarf-skin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [noun] > specific layers
epiderma1582
outskin1583
cutis1605
cuticle1615
scarf-skin1615
cuticula1621
epidermis1626
flesh side1630
derma1706
scarfy skin1744
rete mucosum1754
hypoderma1826
chorion1828
dermis1830
corium1835
derm1835
epiderm1835
flesh1839
rete1842
grain1851
hypoderm1855
stratum corneum1857
grain-side1858
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §297 They never infect, but by such a Touch..as cometh within the Epidermis.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 156 They remain like peel'd Ewes, until their Faces have recovered a new Epidermis.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 235 The blackness lay in the epidermis, or scarf skin.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iii. 50 The epidermis is not vascular, and it merely defends the interior parts from injury.
1842 R. H. Barham St. Medard in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 286 It fail'd..to raise On the tough epidermis a lump or bump!
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 8 A squint, a pug-nose, mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis, betray character.
in extended use.1819 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 260/2 The epidermis of the country has hardly as yet been scratched.1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §310. 353 The epidermis of the ancient statues is formed of the smearing with wax.
b. = ectoderm n. at ecto- comb. form or epiblast n.
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1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 55 From the epidermis all cuticular and cellular exoskeletal parts, and all the integumentary glands are developed.
2. Conchology. The outer animal integument of a shell.
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1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/1 Epidermis, the marine covering, or incrustation, which is taken off to shew the native beauty of the shell.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 110 Shell..with a wrinkled brown or chestnut epidermis, and glossy white within.
1858 A. Geikie Story of Boulder v. 91 The perfect shell..displayed its russet epidermis.
3. Botany. ‘The true skin of a plant below the cuticle’ ( Treasury Bot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > epidermis or cuticle
skina1398
cuticle1672
epidermis1813
epiderm1835
cortex1875
hypoderma1877
tapetum1882
sheath1884
hypodermis1898
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iv. 155 Wheat, oats, and many of the hollow grasses, have an epidermis principally of siliceous earth.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. i. 28 Tabular Parenchyma..is found in the epidermis.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §iv. 89.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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