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cutis

noun
/ˈkjutəs//ˈkjuːtɪs/UK/ˈkjudəs/US

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

  1. derived from cutis — “living skin”

Definitions

  1. The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

    • 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 […]
    • 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).

  2. The peridium of some fungi.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cutis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA