Definition of "cutis" []

• See dermis. (noun)

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• "The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice."
• "[2862] Helleborum frustra cum jam cutis aegra tumebit,"
• "Note 115: Canon, 1.3.1, fol. 65va: "Causa vero quare nobis necessarium est corpus eius durum facere, est quoniam illico cum nascitur, omnia que ipsum tangunt ei nocitiva sunt, sive calida sive frigida sive aspera sentiat ea, et hoc quidem est propter cutis eius subtilitatem, et propter calorem eius.""