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Cuts vs Cutis - What's the difference?

cuts | cutis |

As nouns the difference between cuts and cutis

is that cuts is while cutis is (anatomy) the true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

As a verb cuts

is (cut).

cuts

English

Noun

(head)
  • Corporal punishment at school.
  • * 1995 , Bill Marsh, Ape'', ''Old Yanconian Daze , page 110,
    • ‘I?ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
    Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts .
  • * 2001 , Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town , page 55,
    • He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn?t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
  • * 2008 , Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate , page 250,
    • My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cut)

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    cutis

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
  • * 1883 : Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence
    • The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).

    Synonyms

    * corium

    Derived terms

    * cutaneous * cutin

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