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cutis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈkjutəs/
  • /ˈkjuːtɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkjutɪs/
  • /ˈkjutəs/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

Meanings

  1. The true skin, underlying the epidermis.
    • 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). 1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence:
    • 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 […] 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
  2. The peridium of some fungi.

Forms

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Coordinates

epidermis · cuticle

Deriveds

cutitis · subcutis · cutis verticis gyrata · corrugator cutis ani · leukemia cutis · cutin · sulcus cutis · tuberculosis verrucosa cutis · leukaemia cutis · epicutis · cutis hyperelastica · Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome · cutis laxa · calcinosis cutis · crista cutis · cutaneous

Relateds

subcutis · subcutaneous · cutaneous · integument

Synonyms

dermis · corium

Translations (1)

es cutis (Translations)

wikidata: Q505531