EPIDERMIS Antonyms

• a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

• the deep vascular inner layer of the skin

• layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods

• epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity

• In a plant stem or root, a cylinder of cells that separates the outer cortex from the central core. The endodermis controls flow of water and minerals within the plant. In most plants, this tissue is restricted to the roots.

• The deepest layer of the skin.

• The outer layer of plant tissue comprising the phellem, phellogen and the phelloderm.

• The perisarc; the hard outer layer of hydroids and other marine animals.