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derma

UK/ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/ US/ˈdɜrmʌ/ uncommon

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the deep vascular inner layer of the skin

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Borrowed from Yiddish דערמע (derme), plural of דאַרם (darm, “intestine”), from Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German darm, from Proto-West Germanic *þarm, from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to bore”).

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