cutis
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/ˈkjutəs/
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/ˈkjutəs/ · /ˈkjutɪs/ · /ˈkjuːtɪs/(UK) · /ˈkjudəs/(US)
Definition of cutis
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
“I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]”
“The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).”
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noun
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The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
“I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]”
“The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).”
- The peridium of some fungi.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin cutis (“living skin”).
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