Definitions
a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
Word origin
From Latin cutis (“living skin”).
Used in a sentence
“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 […]”
“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).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Anatomical term for skin”5 letters
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