cutis

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈkjutəs/
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/ˈkjutəs/ · /ˈkjutɪs/ · /ˈkjuːtɪs/(UK) · /ˈkjudəs/(US)

Definition of cutis

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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).”
  2. The peridium of some fungi.

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Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

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