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Definitions: Dermal |
DermalAdjective1. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula. 2. Of or relating to or located in the dermis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dermal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Note: Dermal \Derm"al\, adjective. [From Derm.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Referring to the skin. For example, dermal absorption means passing through the skin. (references) |
Medicine | Pertaining to or coming from the skin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DermalSynonyms: cuticular (adj), dermic (adj), epidermal (adj), epidermic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Adjective: covering; Verb: superimposed, overlaid, plated; Verb: cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered; Verb: imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dermal |
| English words defined with "dermal": Dermohaemal, Dermoneural ♦ Fin ray ♦ Pycnodontini ♦ Synapta ♦ umbrella bird. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dermal": Arthus Reaction ♦ Carbaryl ♦ Dermal Absorption/Penetration, Dermal contact, Dermal Exposure, Dermal toxicity ♦ Ectodermal Dysplasia ♦ Focal Dermal Hypoplasia ♦ Lightning Injuries ♦ Mucinoses ♦ Panniculitis, Lupus Erythematosus ♦ Route of Exposure ♦ Skin, Artificial, Somites, Sweet's Syndrome. (references) |
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Line drawing showing cross-section of dermal and epidermal skin layers.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Natural history of common acquired nevi. Ordinary moles begin as uniformly tan or brown macules, 1 to 2 mm in diameter (a), expand to a larger macule (b), progress to a pigmented papule that may be minimally (c) or obviously (d) elevated above the surface of the skin, and terminate as a pink or flesh-colored papule (e). These lesions are junctional (a,b), compound (c,d), and dermal (e) nevi, respectively. Note their smooth borders and clear demarcation from the surrounding skin.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Frequently there is a variable dermal lymphocyte infiltration. (references) | |
Sunburn is UVR-induced erythema of the skin caused by vasodilatation of dermal vessels. (references) | ||
Dermal vessels become dilated, leaky, and accumulate excessive basement membrane-like material. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dermal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dermal" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dermal": dermal toxicity ♦ Focal Dermal Hypoplasia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dermal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lëkurës (cutaneous, dermatic, dermic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جلدي (coriaceous, cutaneous, leathern, skinny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кожен (cutaneous, dermatic, furry, leather, leathern), отнасящ се до дермата. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 皮肤 (Cutaneous, skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kožní (cutaneous, dermatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dermal, hud- (cutaneous), cutan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dermatisch, dermaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dermique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Haut (barrier in isotope separation, cutaneous, dermis, hews, hide, integument, membrane, Peel, pelt, skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δερματικόσ (cutaneous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bõr- (coriaceous, cutaneous, dermic), bõr (derm, dermic, hide, skin, Tunica), bőr (bag of bones, coat, fell, hide, leather, mottled skin, pelt, skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dermatotossicit (cutaneous toxicity, dermal toxicity), sarcoma cutaneo (dermal sarcoma), actinomicosi cutanea (dermal actinomycosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "부 (skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn chingys Yernagh (Irish disease, salmon disease, ulcerated dermal necrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermalday dérmico (dermic). (various references) dermic (dermic). (various references) кожный (cutaneous, dermatic). (various references) dermalni, kožni (cutaneous, leather, leathern, skin). (various references) dérmico (dermic). (various references) hud- (dermatic). (various references) deriye ait (integumentary), alt deriyle ilgili. (various references) шкірний (cutaneous, dermatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dermal": chordamesodermal, ectodermal, electrodermal, endodermal, entodermal, epidermal, hypodermal, intradermal, mesodermal, subdermal, subepidermal, transdermal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dermal": intradermally, subdermally. (additional references) | |
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"Dermal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darmilo, Deeralok, Dehmel, Dejmal, demal, demalt, demelo, demol, derm, derman, dermat, dermol, Derval, Detmold, dimal, diumal, Djemel, Djerdap, Dormael, drema, Dremel, dremmal, Durmala, dwergar, dwmail, fermal, hermal, Merkmal, Qemal, tormal, Yermak. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dermal" (pronounced der"mul) |
| 5 | d er" m u l | endodermal, epidermal, mesodermal. |
| 4 | -er" m u l | geothermal, hydrothermal, isothermal, thermal. |
| 3 | -m u l | abnormal, abysmal, animal, baptismal, camel, caramel, decimal, dismal, enamel, formal, Hamal, infinitesimal, informal, mammal, maximal, minimal, normal, optimal, paranormal, pommel, primal, proximal, pummel, tramel, trammel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: marled, medlar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: alder, armed, derma, dream, lader, lamed, lamer, madre, medal, realm. | |
-2 letters: alme, dale, dame, dare, deal, dear, derm, dram, earl, lade, lame, lard, lead, lear, made, male, mare, marl, mead, meal, meld, merl, rale, read, real, ream. | |
-3 letters: ale, are, arm, dal, dam, del, ear, eld, elm, era, lad, lam, lar, lea, led. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-m-r" | |
+1 letter: alarmed, earldom, emerald, mandrel, marbled, medlars, rambled. | |
+2 letters: alarumed, alderman, aldermen, brambled, clamored, demersal, demurral, dismaler, dreamful, dreamily, earldoms, emeralds, mandrels, markedly, marveled, medullar, remailed, remedial, remolade, trameled, trampled. | |
+3 letters: admirable, airmailed, bromeliad, clambered, clamoured, comradely, declaimer, demurrals, diametral, dreamland, dreamless, dreamlike, ealdorman, ealdormen, epidermal, gladsomer, glamoured, impearled, madrilene, malformed, marcelled, marmalade, marshaled, marvelled, medullary, melodrama, misleader, misleared, moralised, moralized, reclaimed, remolades, resampled, romeldale, scrambled, subdermal, tramelled, trammeled, treadmill. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 72 6D 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-. -- .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e r m a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0072 006D 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387184796778 |
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