cutis

Definition

The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

Example Sentences

• "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)."

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