Another form of epidermoid, meaning resembling or relating to epidermis, created by adding '-al' to 'epidermoid.'
From epidermoid plus '-al,' combining the '-oid' and '-al' suffixes in a way that seems redundant but appears in medical literature, showing how scientific terminology sometimes develops competing or overlapping forms.
Medical writers love making variations like 'epidermoid' and 'epidermoidal,' but most modern doctors and pathologists just say 'epidermoid'—the extra '-al' hasn't caught on, showing how words naturally compete for dominance in language!
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