noun
Meaning 1
The inner layer of the skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dermis, more there
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
derma
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Pronunciation
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/ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)mə
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CMU ARPABET: D ER1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Clipping of dermatologist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the deep vascular inner layer of the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dermis, corium
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stratum
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin derma, from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”). Doublet of derm.
Borrowed from Yiddish דערמע (derme), plural of דאַרם (darm, “intestine”), from Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German darm, from Proto-West Germanic *þarm, from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terh1- (“to bore”).