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n. - A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch.

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  • This hard portion irritates the sensitive cutis beneath, and so causes pain.
  • The scales of the epidermis are constantly falling off and being replaced by secretion from the cutis.
  • It spreads from the cutis, invests muscles, bones, and cartilages, and thence passes into the mucous membrane.
  • Each hair grows from a tiny bulb (papilla), which is an elevation of the cutis at the bottom of a little hollow in the skin.
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