[L. = the skin.]
1. Anat. The true skin or derma of the body, underlying the epidermis or cuticle.
1603. B. Jonson, Sejanus, II. i. And then prepare a bath To cleanse and clear the cutis.
1623. Massinger, Bondman, IV. iv. Your ten-crown amber possets, good to smooth The cutis, as you call it.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. ii. 117. The thinness of the Cutis, and the Softness and thinness of the Cuticle.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 119. A tubercle in its early stage feels to the finger like a foreign body introduced into the cutis.
2. Bot. The peridium of certain fungi.
