[1835–45; derm(a)1 + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: communism, crosshead, cutaway, grandstand, hybridize-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'dermic' in a sentence
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Histopathology revealed dense and diffuse dermic sample infiltrate of atypical lymphocytes.
Antônio René Diógenes de Sousa, Igor Santos Costa, Edmar Fernandes de Araujo Filho,Natália Braga Hortêncio Jucá, Weline Lucena Landim Miranda 2011, 'Linfoma cutâneo primário de grandes células B de apresentação atípica: relato de casoPrimary cutaneous large B-cell lymphoma of atypical presentation: case report', Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-05962011000300019. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This structure consists of a macrogland of similar organization to that of other dermicglands (e.g., parotoid, paracnemid) of amphibians.
DANIEL E. NAYA, JOSÉ A. LANGONE, RAFAEL O. DE SÁ 2004, 'Características histológicas de la tumefacción frontal de Melanophryniscus (Amphibia:Anura: Bufonidae) Histological features of the frontal tumefaction in Melanophryniscus(Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae)', Revista Chilena de Historia Naturalhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2004000400002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)