Word Meanings - DERMOSTOSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ossification of the dermis.

Related words: (words related to DERMOSTOSIS)

• OSSIFICATION
  The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called
• DERMIS
  The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• ENDODERMIS
  A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
• EPIDERMIS
  The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
• HYPODERMIS
  See HYPOBLAST
• TAXIDERMIST
  A person skilled in taxidermy.