Definition of cutises Cutises
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What does cutises mean?
Part of speech
🔤- cutises, noun, plural of cutis.
WordNet
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| cutis - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" | ||
| skin, tegument | ||
| connective tissue tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments | ||
| body covering any covering for the body or a body part | ||
| integumentary system the skin and its appendages | ||
| investment the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | ||
| thick skin skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros) | ||
| pressure point an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure; "you must know the pressure points in order to administer shiatsu" | ||
| skin graft a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn | ||
| buff an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | ||
| dewlap a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck | ||
| epidermis, cuticle the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | ||
| skin cell any of the cells making up the skin | ||
| corium, derma, dermis the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | ||
| macule, macula a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | ||
| freckle, lentigo a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | ||
| liver spot a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin | ||
| milium, whitehead a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | ||
| blackhead, comedo a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | ||
| pore any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal | ||
| scab the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion | ||
| sudoriferous gland, sweat gland any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration | ||
| free nerve ending microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor | ||
| pacinian corpuscle a specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin; occurs abundantly in the skin of palms and soles and joints and genitals | ||
| foreskin, prepuce a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | ||
| foreskin, prepuce a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | ||
| scalp the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy" | ||
| cuticle the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | ||
| agnail, hangnail a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | ||
| crinkle, furrow, crease, seam, wrinkle, line a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- cutis (n.)
See Dermis.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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cutis
kū′tis, n. the skin: the true skin, as distinguished from the cuticle.—adj. Cutān′eous, belonging to the skin.—n. Cū′ticle, the outermost or thin skin.—adj. Cutic′ular, belonging to the cuticle. [L.]
Part of speech
🔤- cutis, noun, singular of cutises.
