单词 | epidermis |
释义 | epidermisn. 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. b. = ectoderm n. at ecto- comb. form or epiblast n. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1626 |
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