The epidermis is the entire outer epithelial layer of an animal, it may be a single layer that produces an extracellular material (e.g. the cuticle of arthropods) or a complex stratified squamous epithelium, as in the case of many vertebrate species[GO]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0008544 ]
Synonyms: epidermis (sensu Metazoa) outer epidermal layer outer epithelial layer epidermis
Term information
- TADS:0000109
- BTO:0000313
- Wikipedia:Epidermis_(zoology)
- WBbt:0005733
- FBbt:00004993
- BSA:0000073
- HAO:0000298
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Term relations
- epithelium and bounding layer of some multicellular organism and develops from some enveloping layer of ectoderm
- surface structure
- epithelium
- develops from some enveloping layer of ectoderm
- bounding layer of some multicellular organism