Epidermal

Definition: Epidermal

Epidermal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula.

Specialty Definitions: Epidermal

Domain	Definitions
Health	Pertaining to or resembling epidermis. Called also epidermic or epidermoid. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Epidermal

Synonyms: cuticular (adj), dermal (adj), epidermic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Epidermal

English words defined with "epidermal": Epiblema, epidermal cell, Epidermatic, Epidermeous, Epidermical, Epidermidal, eusporangiate, eusporangium ♦ leptosporangiate, leptosporangium ♦ melanoblast ♦ pore ♦ root hair ♦ stoma. (references)

Specialty definitions using "epidermal": c-erbB-2 ♦ Epidermal Cyst, Epidermal Growth Factor, epidermal growth factor receptor, Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic, Exfoliatins ♦ Gardner Syndrome, Genes, erbB, Genes, erbB-1, Genes, erbB-2 ♦ HER2/neu, HER2/neu gene, Histocompatibility Antigens Class II ♦ Keratinocytes ♦ Melanocytes, Merkel Cells, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease ♦ Oncogene Proteins v-erbB, outer seed coat ♦ Pityriasis Lichenoides, Proteus Syndrome ♦ Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, Receptor, erbB-2, Receptor, erbB-3 ♦ Transforming Growth Factor alpha. (references)

Etymologies containing "epidermal": Neuro-epidermal. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Epidermal" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (epidermal).

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Modern Usage: Epidermal

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)
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Commercial Usage: Epidermal

Domain	Title
Books	Epidermal Growth Factors and Cytokines (reference) Epidermal Keratinocyte Differentiation and Fibrillogenesis (reference) Epidermal wound healing (reference) Processes in Cutaneous Epidermal Differentiation: Proceedings of the United States-Japan Joint Seminar, 1985 (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Epidermal

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Photo Album: Epidermal

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	Line drawing showing cross-section of dermal and epidermal skin layers.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		The introduction of toxins into the marine environment have drastic effects on the organisms that live there. An English sole with epidermal neoplasm.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Epidermal

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Soluble factors released from UV-irradiated epidermal cells also may be responsible for this altered immune response. (references)
		Keratinocytes of the more differentiated epidermal layers (upper spinous, granular, and cornified) show few, if any, cytologic changes. (references)
		This kind of abutment is more susceptible to shearing forces than the normal interlocked system of epidermal rete ridges and dermal papillae. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Epidermal

"Epidermal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epidermal" is used about 78 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%	78	37,656

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Epidermal

Expressions using "epidermal": epidermal cell ♦ Epidermal Cyst ♦ Epidermal Growth Factor ♦ epidermal growth factor receptor. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "epidermal": dermo-epidermal, intra-epidermal, Neuro-epidermal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Epidermal

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
epidermal cyst	37
does epidermal it nevi occur often	36
toxic epidermal necrolysis	36
epidermal growth factor	20
cyst epidermal inclusion	16
epidermal	16
epidermal nevus	8
2 epidermal factor growth human receptor	7
cancer epidermal factor growth	5
epidermal growth factor receptor	5
epidermal necrolysis	4
epidermal nevus syndrome	3
epidermal linear nevus	2
epidermal cell	2
epidermal hair tx	2
cyst epidermal removal	2
epidermal injection	2
epidermal necrolysis syndrome toxic	2
egf epidermal factor growth	2
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Modern Translations: Epidermal

Language		Translations for "epidermal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		epidermik (epidermic). (various references)

Arabic		‏ذو علاقة بالبشر, ‏بشري (good news, human, walking). (various references)

Bulgarian		епидермален. (various references)

Chinese		表皮 (Cortical, Cuticle, epidermis). (various references)

Czech		epidermální. (various references)

Danish		epidermal- (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous), edipermal, overhuds- (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

Dutch		epidermaal, van de opperhuid (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

Finnish		orvasketeen liittyvä (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous), ihoon liittyvä (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

French		épidermique (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

German		epidermische, epidermal (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

Greek		επιδερμικόσ, επιδερμικό (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

Hungarian		felhám- (cuticular). (various references)

Italian		epidermico (epidermic). (various references)

Korean		표�"�. (various references)

Pig Latin		epidermalay

Portuguese		epidemiologia (epidemiology), epidérmico. (various references)

Romanian		epidermic (epidermic). (various references)

Russian		эпидермический (epidermic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		epidermalan (epidermic). (various references)

Spanish		epidérmico (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

Swedish		epidermal (epidermic, epidermical, epidermous). (various references)

Turkish		üst deriye ait (epidermic). (various references)

Ukranian		епідермічний (epidermic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Epidermal

Derivations
	Words ending with "epidermal": subepidermal. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Epidermal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eigerman, epicercal, Epidemiol, epideral, epidermas, epidurmal, peridermal, pyoderma. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Epidermal"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "epidermal" (pronounced e'puder"mul)
6	-u d er" m u l	mesodermal.
5	-d er" m u l	dermal, endodermal.
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.
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Anagrams: Epidermal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: impearled.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-p-r"
	-1 letter: pedalier, remailed, remedial.
	-2 letters: demirep, emailed, emerald, empaled, empaler, epiderm, impaled, impaler, impearl, impeder, implead, leadier, lempira, limeade, mealier, palmier, pearled, periled, pleader, predial, premade, premeal, replead, replied, rimpled.
	-3 letters: admire, aedile, aeried, aliped, ampere, ampler, ariled, damper, dealer, dearie, delime, deperm, derail, dermal, dialer, diaper, dimple, elapid, elmier, empale, empire, epimer, impale.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-p-r"
	+1 letter: premedical.
	+2 letters: premedieval, reimplanted.
	+3 letters: imponderable, slipstreamed, subepidermal, temporalized.
	+4 letters: imponderables, overamplified, predominately.
	+5 letters: hyperlipidemia, impersonalized, premeditatedly.
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