Meaning of cutis | Babel Free
/ˈkjutəs/Definitions
- The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
- The peridium of some fungi.
Examples
“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).”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.