Dermis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 141 anagrams from letters in dermis (deimrs).
1820-30; New Latin; abstracted from epidermis
There remains the dermis or second layer of skin which is also of value for identification purposes.
Derma, or dermis, is the true skin lying under the epidermis (cuticle), which is known in contrast as the scarf-skin.
These last surround the central mass or core formed by the dermis.
The eccentrically elliptical pierces the epidermis at right angles, and lies perpendicularly in the dermis.
A papilla of the dermis makes its appearance, the outer layer of which gradually calcifies to form the dentine and osseous tissue.
The line of junction between the epiblast and the mesoblast coincides with that between the epidermis and the dermis.
Each placoid element consists of a spine with a broadly expanded base embedded in the dermis.
The epiblast also forms the epidermis; not however the dermis, which is of mesoblastic origin.
It is not due to any abnormal development of blood-vessels in the dermis.
A small papilla of the dermis grows into the inner end of the epidermic process when the hair is first formed.
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