hypodermic

(hi-po-dér’mik), a. and n. [ urd, under, + dépya, the skin (cf. hypoderm), + -i¢c.] I, a. 1. Pertaining or relating to parts under the skin; subeutaneous; employed in ini troducing foreign substances under the skin: specifically applied to a mode of administering, medicines by introducing them under the skin: | as, a hypodermic syringe. > The galvanic excitation of the lower limb, or the hypo-, dermic injection of strychnine into it. Prize E ays, Conn. Med. Soc., 1868. 2. Burrowing in or under the skin; infesting the integuments: as, a hypodermic insect.—3 Of or pertaining to the hypoderm in arthropods: as, a hypodermic layer; hypodermic cells. II. ». 1. In med., a remedy introduced under the skin, as morphia or other narcotic agent. —2. A hypodermic injection or syringe. eet mical (hi-p6-dér’mi-kal), a. Same as ypodermic. eee tatically (hi-po-dér’mi-kal-i), adv. In a odermic manner; under the skin. hypodermis (hi-po-dér’mis), ». [NL., ¢ Gr. vrodepmic, lit. under skin, ¢ x6, under, + dépua, skin.}] 1. In annelids, as the earthworm, a thick layer, below the cuticula, of reticulated or nucleated ti ue, in the meshes of which is a copious transparent gelatinous substance. It is considered by some as probably representing both the dermis and the epidermis of other an is a an cei aii Dl a a mals.— 2. In entom., a soft cellular substance A. or ti ue lining the abdominal wall of an insect, within the chitinous investment. The more superficial parts of it represent an ectoderm or epidermis, the deeper portion being a parietal layer of the mesoderm.