cutis
the true skin, consisting of the dermis and the epidermis.
Origin of cutis
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How to use cutis in a sentence
Variable œdema of the prickle layer and of the cutis is found.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonFrom the separate cells first budded off there are formed the cutis, part of the connective tissue and the calcareous skeleton.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourQu cum aquis pota specum repeteret, impactum Frothonis ferrum aspero cutis horrore contempsit.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersThe epidermis will close over, and the cutis and the pellis.
Lorna Doone | R. D. BlackmoreDarwin possesses the epidermis of poetry but not the cutis; the cortex without the liber, alburnum, lignum, or medulla.
Anima Poet | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British Dictionary definitions for cutis
/ (ˈkjuːtɪs) /
Origin of cutis
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