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cutis anserina

[ kyoo-tis an-suh-rahy-nuh ]

/ ˈkyu tɪs ˌæn səˈraɪ nə /

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noun Medicine/Medical.

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Origin of cutis anserina

<New Latin: goose flesh; see cutis, anserine

Words nearby cutis anserina

cutie pie, cutin, cutinize, cut into, cutis, cutis anserina, cutis vera, cut it, cut it fine, cut it out, cutlass

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How to use cutis anserina in a sentence

Variable œdema of the prickle layer and of the cutis is found.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
From 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 Balfour
Qu cum aquis pota specum repeteret, impactum Frothonis ferrum aspero cutis horrore contempsit.
Beowulf|R. W. Chambers
The epidermis will close over, and the cutis and the pellis.
Lorna Doone|R. D. Blackmore

Darwin possesses the epidermis of poetry but not the cutis; the cortex without the liber, alburnum, lignum, or medulla.
Anima Poet|Samuel Taylor Coleridge