a. [f. EPIDERM + -IC; cf. F. épidermique.] Of or pertaining to the epidermis; of the nature of an epidermis.
1830. R. Knox, Béclard’s Anat., 54. Some physiologists still place the horny or epidermic substance among the primitive fibres.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 127/1. In the Trematode worms epidermic spines are seldom developed.
1872. Huxley, Physiol., i. 9. The razor ought to cut only epidermic structures.
