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hyperdermic

hyperdermic is the misconstruction of hypodermic.

Meaning of hypodermic

Adjective

hypodermic (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis.
    • Which means that at the moment Raven entered her, a very small hypodermic needle slipped imperceptibly into the engorged frontal vein of his penis, automatically shooting a cocktail of powerful narcotics and depressants into his bloodstream.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 358

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Forms of hyperdermic

comparativemore hyperdermic
superlativemost hyperdermic

Questions about hyperdermic

What is hyperdermic the misconstruction of?
Hyperdermic is the misconstruction of hypodermic.

Words near hyperdermic in the dictionary

  1. hyperdense
  2. hyperdensities
  3. hyperdensity
  4. hyperdependent
  5. hyperdepletion
  6. hyperdermic
  7. hyperdescent
  8. hyperdesertic
  9. hyperdestructive
  10. hyperdetail
  11. hyperdetailed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperdermic (page history and authors); hypodermic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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