Epidermis
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Epidermis may refer to:
- Epidermis (botany)Epidermis (botany)The epidermis is a single-layered group of cells that covers plants' leaves, flowers, roots and stems. It forms a boundary between the plant and the external environment. The epidermis serves several functions, it protects against water loss, regulates gas exchange, secretes metabolic compounds,...
, in plants, the outermost layer of cells covering the leaves and young parts of a plant - Epidermis (skin), the outermost layer of the skin of a human
- Epidermis (zoology)Epidermis (zoology)The Epidermis is an epithelium that covers the body of an eumetazoan . Eumetazoa have a cavity lined with a similar epithelium, the gastrodermis, which forms a boundary with the epidermis at the mouth.Sponges have no epithelium, and therefore no epidermis or gastrodermis...
, the outermost layer of the skin of a eumetazoan animal