Cutis

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  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The skin in general; a skin.
  • noun. The true skin, corium, or derma underlying the cuticle or scarf-skin. See cut under skin.
  • noun. 3. A firmer tissue of some fungi, forming an outer covering.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See dermis.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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."
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    Form
    cutaneous  cutin  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    albo  conditam  dermis  ipso  kohl-rabi  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    corium  
    variant
    cutes  dermis