Definition of "hypodermal" []

• Of or relating to the hypodermis. (adjective)
• Lying below the epidermis. (adjective)

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• "Its effects, rheumatic and neuralgic, may be judged by the fact that the doctors must walk about with pocketed squirts, for the hypodermal injection of opium."
• "Powerful muscles in jaws and neck forced the poison out through the hypodermal tube in the minidrag's mouth."
• "In other words, the structural peculiarities of the gramineæ in these respects are due to the physical characteristics chiefly of the (lignified) cells of the hypodermal tissue, and to the composition and arrangement of the cells of the cuticle."