derm Anat.
(dɜːm)
[mod. f. Gr. δέρµα skin: cf. F. derme (1611 Cotgr.), mod.L. derma (Paré c 1550).]
The layer of tissue (chiefly connective tissue) lying beneath the epidermis, and forming the general integument of the organs; the true skin or corium.
| 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 589/2 The derm or corium..which..protects all the other parts of the skin. 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vi. i. 317 The vesicle is beneath the derm or cutis. 1880 Ord & Sewell in Med. Chirurg. Trans. LXIII. 4 Projections of the derm into the epidermis, having the appearance of distorted papillæ. |
b. Comb. derm-skeleton: see dermoskeleton.