epiderm (epiderm)

[ epidermis.] Same as epidermis. vaginated in the blastodermic vesicle, mains superimposed upon a large yolk inclosed epidermal (ep-i-der'mal), a. [ IMG:content-0604.png:[blocks in formation] See epicyclic train, under epicyclic.-2. In the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, a little circle, conceived for the explanation of planetary motion, whose center was supposed to move round in the circumference of a greater circle; a small circle whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, was supposed to be carried along with the deferent, and yet by its own peculiar motion to carry the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. Copernicus also dictical. epideistic (epi-de-is'tik), a. [ or purpose. The German expositions were e entially scientific and critical, not epideistic, nor intended to make converts. Westminster Rev., CXXVII. 110. epidemic (ep-i-dem'ik), a. and n. [L.epidemus ( IMG:content-0605.png:[blocks in formation] epiderm ale (epi-der-ma'lē), n.; pl. epiderm a lia (-li-a). [NL., IMG:content-0606.jpg:[blocks in formation] mis ( -id- ) + -al.] Same as epidermal or epidermic. [Rare.]