Saturday, October 20, 2007

Beauty is just skin deep...

Pachyderm (N): Thick-skinned animal.Examples of such animals are Elephant, Hippopatamus and rhinoceros.This word can be broken as “Pachy” (thick, large, massive) here it means “thick” and “derma” meaning “skin”.

Pachydermatous (Adj): Thick skinned; insensitive; not sensitive to criticism and rebuff.
Word use:Your comments will have no effect on him, as he is a pachydermatous person.

Dermatologist (N): One who studies the skin and its diseases.Derma means, “skin” and “logy” means science, study, or theory.

Epidermis (N): skin, derma, integument, hide.“Epi”meaning upon.

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V

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