cutisn.
/ˈkjuːtɪs/, U.S. /ˈkjudəs/ 1. Anatomy. The true skin or derma of the body, underlying the epidermis or cuticle.
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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
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus ii. i. 127 And then prepare a Bath To clense, and cleare the Cutis . View more context for this quotation
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man iv. iv. sig. I3v Your ten-crowne Amber Possets, good to smoothe The Cutis, as you call it.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 117 The thinness of the Cutis, and the Softness and thinness of the Cuticle.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. iii. 118 A tubercle feels to the finger in its early stage like a foreign body introduced into the cutis.
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2. Botany. The peridium of certain fungi.
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