DERMIS
- the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network
- the sensitive vascular inner mesodermic layer of the skin called also corium cutis see hair illustration
- a layer of the skin, also DERM, DERMA [n -ES]
- derma (a layer of the skin) [n DERMISES] : DERMIC [adj]