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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An instrument used surgically to remove a thin slice of skin for grafting
2. 2
   a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin wordnet
3. 3
   An area of skin which is innervated by afferent nerve fibers coming to a single posterior spinal root.
4. 4
   The dorsal part of an embryonic somite contributing in part to skin development.

Etymology

From derma- + -tome (“instrument for cutting”).

Related phrases

afferent nervecutis plate

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