Maana ya kamusi ya neno "epidermis" ni tabaka la nje la seli au tishu ya kiumbe, hasa tabaka jembamba la nje la ngozi la wanyama wenye uti wa mgongo.
1. Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes not of our life, and may be stripped off here and there without fatal injury our thicker garments, constantly worn, are our cellular integument, or cortex but our shirts are our liber or true bark, which cannot be removed without girdling and so destroying the man.
2. The veins beneath his skin glowed blue and raised the thinning epidermis.