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Cutis

See Dermis.

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Agnail 76% connected

A corn on the toe or foot.

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Buff 76% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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Cuticle 76% connected

The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

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Dewlap 76% connected

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

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Foreskin 76% connected

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

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Hangnail 76% connected

A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.

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Investment 76% connected

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

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Prepuce 76% connected

The foreskin.

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Scalp 76% connected

A bed of oysters or mussels.

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Blackhead 70% connected

The scaup duck.

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Comedo 70% connected

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, w…

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Corium 70% connected

Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.

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Crease 70% connected

See Creese.

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Crinkle 70% connected

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

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Cuticle 70% connected

The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

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Derma 70% connected

See Dermis.

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Dermis 70% connected

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin,…

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Epidermis 70% connected

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

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Freckle 70% connected

A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.

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Furrow 70% connected

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

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Lentigo 70% connected

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

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Line 70% connected

Flax; linen.

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Macula 70% connected

A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

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Macule 70% connected

A spot.

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Pore 70% connected

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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Scab 70% connected

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

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Seam 70% connected

Grease; tallow; lard.

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Whitehead 70% connected

The blue-winged snow goose.

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Wrinkle 70% connected

A winkle.

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Substance part 1

Melanin 70% connected

A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer…

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Synonym 2

Skin 92% connected

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Tegument 92% connected

A cover or covering; an integument.

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