cutis
a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch - your skin is the largest organ of your body • Syn: skin, tegument • Derivationally related forms: cutaneal, skinny (for: skin), skin (for: skin) • Hypernyms: connective tissue, body covering • Hyponyms: investment, thick skin, skin graft, buff, dewlap, prepuce, foreskin, scalp, cuticle, hangnail, agnail • Part Holonyms: integumentary system • Substance Meronyms: melanin • Part Meronyms: pressure point, epidermis, cuticle, skin cell, dermis, corium, derma, macule, macula, freckle, lentigo, liver spot, whitehead, milium, blackhead, comedo, pore, scab, sweat gland, sudoriferous gland, free nerve ending, Pacinian corpuscle, wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line
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