• IPA: /kjutəs/, /kjutɪs/

cutis (plural cutes)

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗:

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     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 […]

   • 1883: Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence

     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).

• corium