noun.
The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
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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."