coriumn.
/ˈkɔːrɪəm/, U.S. /ˈkɔriəm/1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 73 Twice a day the foresaid Squires..should Flebotomize her salt Corium.
1. Physiology. The true skin or derma under the epidermis.
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the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [noun] > specific layers
epiderma1582
outskin1583
cutis1605
cuticle1615
scarf-skin1615
cuticula1621
epidermis1626
flesh side1630
derma1706
scarfy skin1744
rete mucosum1754
hypoderma1826
chorion1828
dermis1830
corium1835
derm1835
epiderm1835
flesh1839
rete1842
grain1851
hypoderm1855
stratum corneum1857
grain-side1858
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 246/1 The integument is composed of two layers or pellicles, viz. the epidermis and the corium.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 26 The Corium contains yellow as well as white fibres.
2. Entomology. The leathery or horny basal portion of the wing of a heteropterous insect.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxv. 614 In Aradus depressus the corium is driven to the base of the wing.
3. Historical. A leathern body-armour formed of overlapping flaps or scales.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > leather corselet or cuirass
cuirass1464
quirréa1500
lorica1706
corium1834
thorax1842
loric1855
1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 52.
1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. Gloss. at Corium He wears a leather corium, the flaps of which are of different colours.
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