Epidermis may refer to:
- Epidermis (botany), the outermost cell layer of plants
- Epidermis (skin), the outermost layer of the skin of a human or other vertebrate animal
- Epidermis (zoology), the sheet of cells that covers the body of all animals more complex than sponges
Famous quotes containing the word epidermis:
“Allusion has been made to [Proust’s] contempt for the literature that “describes,” for the realists and naturalists worshipping the offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)