DERMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dermal mean? 

• DERMAL (adjective)
  The adjective DERMAL has 3 senses:

1. of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula

2. of or relating to or located in the dermis

3. relating to or existing on or affecting the skin

  Familiarity information: DERMAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERMAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cuticular; dermal; epidermal; epidermic

Pertainym:

cuticle (the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or located in the dermis

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

dermal; dermic

Pertainym:

dermis (the deep vascular inner layer of the skin)

Derivation:

dermis (the deep vascular inner layer of the skin)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Relating to or existing on or affecting the skin

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cutaneal; cutaneous; dermal

Context example:

a cutaneous infection

Pertainym:

cutis (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

 Context examples 

A findings about domain for submitting dermal responses to antigens.

(Immunogenicity Specimen Assessments Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Microscopically, the dermal lymphatics show prominent infiltration by malignant cells.

(Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The lower segment of the hair that circles the dermal papilla and the hair matrix.

(Hair Bulb, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, there is a dense granulomatous dermal atypical lymphocytic infiltrate, often associated with multinucleated giant cells.

(Granulomatous Slack Skin Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of intraepidermal and dermal nests of malignant epithelial cells.

(Eccrine Porocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A nevus in which nests of melanocytes are found in the dermis, but not at the epidermal-dermal junction.

(Intradermal Nevus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Melanocytes are present in excess at the dermal/epidermal junction.

(Junctional Melanocytic Hyperplasia of Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A benign primary melanocytic tumor of the skin that presents as a dermal nodule.

(Paraganglioma-Like Dermal Melanocytic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The lesion is usually a solitary deep dermal or subcutaneous tumor 3-30 mm in diameter, situated in the head, neck, or upper extremity.

(Pilomatricoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A vascular malformation of developmental origin characterized pathologically by ectasia of superficial dermal capillaries, and clinically by persistent macular erythema.

(Nevus Flammeus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)