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Cuticle vs Tegument - What's the difference?

cuticle | tegument |

As nouns the difference between cuticle and tegument

is that cuticle is the outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis while tegument is something which covers; a covering or coating.

cuticle

English

(wikipedia cuticle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
  • The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  • Dead or cornified epidermis.
  • (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
  • A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

    • Synonyms

    * (outer protective covering) cuticula

    Derived terms

    * cuticular * epicuticle * exocuticle * mescocuticle * procuticle

    See also

    * nail * thumbnail * toenail * quick

    tegument

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which covers; a covering or coating.
  • * 1658': But in the ''Homericall'' Urne of ''Patroclus'', whatever was the solid '''Tegument , we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
  • (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.