English > skin: 12 senses > noun 1, body| Meaning | A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch. |
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| Example | "your skin is the largest organ of your body" |
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| Synonyms | tegument, cutis |
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| Part of | integumentary system | The skin and its appendages |
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| Parts | Pacinian corpuscle | A specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin |
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| blackhead, comedo | A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin |
| dermis, corium, derma | The deep vascular inner layer of the skin |
| epidermis, cuticle | The outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates |
| freckle, lentigo | A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin |
| free nerve ending | Microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor |
| liver spot | A type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin |
| macule, macula | A patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated |
| pore | Any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal |
| pressure point | An area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure |
| scab | The crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion |
| skin cell | Any of the cells making up the skin |
| sweat gland, sudoriferous gland | Any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration |
| whitehead, milium | A small whitish / whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland |
| wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line | A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface |
| Narrower | buff | bare skin |
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| cuticle | The dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail |
| dewlap | A hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck |
| hangnail, agnail | A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail |
| investment | Outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism |
| prepuce, foreskin | A fold of skin covering the tip of the penis |
| prepuce, foreskin | A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris |
| scalp | The skin that covers the top of the head |
| skin graft | A piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn |
| thick skin | skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros) |
| Broader | body covering | Any covering for the body or a body part |
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| connective tissue | tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells |
| Substances | melanin | insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers |
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| Spanish | cutis, piel, tegumento |
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| Catalan | cutis, pell, tegument |
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| Adjectives | endermic, endermatic | acting by absorption through the skin |
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| hypodermic, subcutaneous | relating to or located below the epidermis |
| intradermal, intradermic, intracutaneous | relating to areas between the layers of the skin |
| mucocutaneous | of or relating to the mucous membranes and skin |
| percutaneous, transcutaneous | through the unbroken skin |
| skinny | of or relating to or resembling skin |
| Verbs | skin | bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of |
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