1. Referring to a kind of surgery performed with the skin of an animal: Skin grafting can be zoodermic when living tissue is transplanted from one healthy part of the body to another part which has a disorder, as with a severe burn.
2. A reference to the skin of an animal: Lisa's cat, Thisbie, had a very bad and reoccurring zoodermic infection on its leg that had to be treated over a period of time.