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Cutis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See dermis.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See dermis.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The skin in general; a skin.

n. The true skin, corium, or derma underlying the cuticle or scarf-skin. See cut under skin.

n. 3. A firmer tissue of some fungi, forming an outer covering.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

Word Usage

"The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice."

Cross Reference

cutis vera cutis anserina

Variant

cutes dermis

Form

cutin cutaneous

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

corium

Same Context

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