Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "epidermis" is die buitenste laag selle of weefsel van 'n organisme, veral die dun, beskermende buitenste laag vel by gewerwelde diere.
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.
The veins beneath his skin glowed blue and raised the thinning epidermis.
