Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging or relating to or resembling the epidermis; covering the skin; epidermal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
- adjective (Med.) the application of medicine to the skin by friction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to the
epidermis or to theskin orbark
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula
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Examples
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In any case, if we find ourselves landless in the crowded city of tomorrow, perhaps amidst the future ultramegametropolis of New Tokyo-Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Manila, we can cultivate our own epidermic Eden.
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In any case, if we find ourselves landless in the crowded city of tomorrow, perhaps amidst the future ultramegametropolis of New Tokyo-Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Manila, we can cultivate our own epidermic Eden.
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The Lesotho government is expected to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to combat the epidermic.
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Center's (Eyverkinasa), which is a recombinant streptokinase used in case of a heart attack; (Evermin), which is an epidermic growth factor; and Interferon.
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This is leading to a loss of genetic resources, and a risk of losing the planted trees in the event of a disease or insect epidermic.
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We have obtained an epidermic growth factor and it is being handled by one or two transnationals.
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We control the technology of the epidermic growth factor-used for burns, skin graphs, and many other applications and is also a highly expensive product-and it came from our research centers.
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The same thing will be done with epidermic growth factor; it will be produced by the genetic engineering center.
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There are laboratories abroad that have compared the two, and our epidermic growth factor is much more, several times more effective than the multinational firm 's epidermic growth factor.
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A multinational firm has the epidermic growth factor.
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