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Derma

//ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The inner layer of the skin.
  2. 2
    Clipping of dermatologist. India, Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
  3. 3
    A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.
  4. 4
    the deep vascular inner layer of the skin wordnet

Etymology

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”).

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