Cuticle vs Tegument - What's the difference?
cuticle | tegument |
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.
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.