cutis

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

noun

  1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, 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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