cutis

Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

1. 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 […]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

   Synonyms:

   corium, dermis

2. The peridium of some fungi.