单词 | cuticle |
释义 | cuticlen. 1. a. The epidermis n. or scarf-skin of the body. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [noun] > specific layers epiderma1582 outskin1583 cutis1605 cuticle1615 scarf-skin1615 cuticula1621 epidermis1626 flesh side1630 derma1706 scarfy skin1744 rete mucosum1754 hypoderma1826 chorion1828 dermis1830 corium1835 derm1835 epiderm1835 flesh1839 rete1842 grain1851 hypoderm1855 stratum corneum1857 grain-side1858 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 61 The Scarfe-skin or Cuticle being voide of sense itselfe. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 70 The Cuticle, which the Greekes call Epidermis, because it runnes vppon the surface of the true skinne. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 200 The Cuticule or Scarf-skin. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 44 Let us consider, how we can separate the Cuticle from the true Cutis. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 102/2 The cuticle of these animals [i.e. amphibia] is frequently shed. b. Applied to other superficial skins or integuments; e.g. the transparent membrane which envelops annelids. ΚΠ 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B8 Under it [sc. the tongue of serpents] is a cuticle, which like a vesicle covereth the teeth. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) xii. 278 The shaft of a hair of the head consists of a central pith..of a cortical substance surrounding this..and of an outer cuticle. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 198 The cuticle [of the earthworm] is thin, transparent, and variable in thickness in different regions of the body. c. The cell-wall of Infusoria. d. The dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nail > [noun] > parts of nail root end1675 lunula1828 eponychium1885 cuticle1907 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 538/1 Cuticle knife, ivory handle. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 538/2 Cuticle scissors... Cuticle cream for softening the skin at base of nail. 1919 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Jan. 67/2 Cutex, the Cuticle Remover, comes in 35c, 65c and $1.25 bottles. 1962 Woman 1 Dec. 9/2 Every night, take care of your cuticles. 1962 Woman 1 Dec. 9/2 Apply cuticle cream. 1966 Vogue Nov. 61/2 Everything needed for a manicure..cuticle remover, orange stick, emery board. 2. Botany. Formerly, the primary integumentary tissue or epidermis; now, a superficial film formed of the cutinized outer layers of the superficial walls of the epidermal cells.The later usage was introduced by Ad. Brongniart ( Ann. des Sci. Nat., Sér. 2, I. 65). It appears in English in Henfrey's transl. of von Mohl's Vegetable Cell 1852, p. 34. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > epidermis or cuticle skina1398 cuticle1672 epidermis1813 epiderm1835 cortex1875 hypoderma1877 tapetum1882 sheath1884 hypodermis1898 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 37 That extream thin Cuticle which is spred over the Lobes of the Seed. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 19 The cuticle is formed so as to accommodate itself..to the natural growth of the plant. 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §1 The presence of a kind of skin or cuticle, which envelops the whole. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 29 Epidermis, outer skin, is the name given to the layer of cells which is covered by and produces the cuticle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > thin skina1475 weba1475 film1577 cuticle1658 cuticula1662 surface film1841 skim1951 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 314 This [salt] being boyled to a Cuticle will shoot like to any other Salt. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 34 Without breaking thorow the tender cuticle and film of so brittle and thin a substance [an air-bubble]. a1727 I. Newton Opticks (1730) iii. i. 363 When any saline Liquor is evaporated to..Cuticle and let cool, the Salt concretes in regular Figures. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1615 |
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