Dermis Definition

Dermis Sentence Examples

• Officially referred to by doctors as "permanent pigmentation of the dermis", permanent makeup is a process that literally tattoos cosmetics onto the skin.

• It is then lifted forward and upward, just enough so that it penetrates the dermis.

• A second-degree burn involves redness, swelling and blistering, and the damage may extend beneath the epidermis to deeper layers of skin (dermis).

• Once the sun's rays penetrate through the outermost protective skin layer into the inner skin layer known as the dermis, newly formed skin cells are easily damaged by the intensity of the exposure.

• This consists of hard, elongated, slender, cylindrical or tapering, thread-like masses of epidermic tissue, each of which grows, without branching, from a short prominence, or papilla, sunk at the bottom of a pit, or follicle, in the true skin, or dermis.