dermis
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"The collagen will just sit on the outer layer of your skin, it won't reach the dermis - which is the middle layer."
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
In argyria, silver ions circulate through the bloodstream and become embedded in the dermis, a layer beneath the surface where the body cannot easily clear them.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025
They achieved both the hypodermis and dermis layers, with the epidermis forming within two weeks by itself.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
Multi-layered full thickness skin was created which contained all three layers present in normal human tissue: epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.
From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023
The convoluted gland is seen surrounded with big fat-cells, and may be traced through the dermis to its outlet in the horny layers of the epidermis.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
