cutis

plural cutes

1. anatomyThe true skin, underlying the epidermis.

   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

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   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

   Synonyms: corium, dermis

2. biologyThe peridium of some fungi.