cutis
Collocations
2CUTIS + NOUN
thickness
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
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.
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Synonyms
noun — a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of
- skin
- tegument
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Idioms & Phrases
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2I 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 […]
WiktionaryThe 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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