Epidermal

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to the epidermis or scarf-skin; cuticular; exoskeletal. Also, rarely, epidermatoid, epidermose, epidermous, epidermidal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the epidermis.
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  • adjective. of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula
  • Word Usage
    "It was already known that a genetic defect in the coding for epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR, a cell-surface receptor for a hormone known as epidermal growth factor, plays a role in about one-third of glioblastoma cases."