Other epidermal cells known as melanocytes are the body's natural defense against skin cancer.
However, in this process the cell also dies, to be sloughed off and make way for the next generation of epidermal cells.
A root hair is a tubular outgrowth of an epidermal cell.
But what is interesting is the arrangement of epidermal cells.
Top and bottom are single layers of transparent, protective epidermal cells.
After all, the Romulan didn't want to lose the epidermal cells that the human had deposited there.
The cell walls of the epidermal cells are very thin, flattened and straight.
The epidermal cells are the most numerous, largest, and least specialized.
Guard Cells are the only epidermal cells that can make sugar.
These can be combined to grow a single layer of epidermal cells for research purposes.