Derma
/ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The inner layer of the skin.
- 2 Clipping of dermatologist. India, Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
- 3 A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.
- 4 the deep vascular inner layer of the skin wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsEtymology
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from New Latin derma, from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”). Doublet of derm.
Etymology 2
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”).