cutis

See also: Cutiș, cutís, and ćutiš

English

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjutəs/, /ˈkjutɪs/

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Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

   Synonym: corium

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     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 […]

   • 1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence:

     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. (mycology) The peridium of some fungi.

Derived terms

• 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

Anagrams

• ictus, ictūs, ustic