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der·ma·tome (dûr'mə-tōm')
n.
  1. Anatomy. An area of skin innervated by sensory fibers from a single spinal nerve.
  2. Medicine. An instrument used in cutting thin slices of the skin, as for skin grafts.
  3. Embryology. The part of a mesodermal somite from which the dermis develops.

[DERMA- + -TOME.]




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