cutis
nounUK /ˈkjuːtɪs/ · US /ˈkjutəs/
Etymology From Latin cutis (“living skin”).
- 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 […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- 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).1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence:
- 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, tuberculosis verrucosa cutis
- Related terms
- cutaneous, subcutaneous, subcutis, integument