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cutis

/ˈkjutəs/
/ˈkjutɪs/
/ˈkjuːtɪs/ UK
/ˈkjutəs/ US

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From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

noun cutes

The true skin, 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 […]
Similar: corium, dermis
The peridium of some fungi.

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@misc{cutis_2026,
  title = {cutis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cutis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}