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n. (context anatomy English) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
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Cutis is the combined term for the epidermis and the dermis, the two outer layers of the skin. The subcutis is the layer below the cutis. Sweat pores are contained in the cutis, along with other organs, while hair follicles are contained in the subcutis, along with sweat glands and nerves.
Cutis may refer to several unrelated biological structures:
- Cutis (anatomy), the outermost layers of skin
- Cutis (mycology), a type of pileipellis in a fungus
Usage examples of "cutis".
It consists of two layers, termed the Cutis Vera, or true skin, and the Epidermis, or cuticle.
As soon as dry, they are removed in the form of scurf, and replaced by new ones from the cutis vera.
He had been born in a town very distant from the sea, and he had set foot on a ship only at an advanced age, when—he said—his body was nothing but a withering of the cutis, a dimming of the sight, a besnotting of the nose, a whispering of the ears, a yellowing of the teeth, a stiffening of the spine, a wattling of the throat, a gouting of the heels, a spotting of the complection, a whitening of the locks, a creaking of the tibias, a trembling of the fingers, a stumbling of the feet, and his breast was all one purging of catarrhs amid the coughing of phlegm and the spitting of sputum.
In cold countries the cutis is constringed and the papillæ compressed: the military glands are in some measure paralytic.