subcuticlen.adj.

a1785 C. Collignon Misc. Wks. (1786) 41 I am not displeased with Boccalini for flaying Seneca, and taking his moral skin off, and discovering another Subcuticle, covering the flesh of a Knave.

1821 J. Grahame Rural Poems 304 Every time the heels [of a clipped horse] are rubbed, the roots of the hair act as a kind of prickles on the most sensible part of the frame, viz. the subcuticle.

1903 Summary (Elmira, N.Y.) 21 Nov. 5/3 Surface and elevated lines are destined to be thrown across the city like a net; its subcuticle to be honeycombed with tunnels.

1912 J. P. Sheldon Dairying xi. 205 A rustling, crackling noise is heard under the skin [in black-leg], as if there were an accumulation of air or gas in the subcuticle, which in reality there is.

1970 J. A. Kerr Appendicitis v. 33 His method is to pick up the skin of the abdominal wall by means of forefinger and thumb..and to pinch. In this way the nerves of the subcuticle are stimulated.

1871 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 144 Those ‘points’ of the subcuticle which Ehlers has described project into the chitinous membrane in much greater numbers than in the true body of the animal.

1914 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 33 83 The visibility of this small organ is quite as much due to the alteration in the body wall and subcuticle as to that in the cuticle.

1981 Tissue & Cell 13 837/1 The subcuticle, just above the epidermis, shows further differentiation.

2006 Jrnl. Morphol. 267 162/1 The thick subcuticle..allows the wrinkled cuticle to stretch without tearing off the epithelium.

1889 Microcosm Dec. 10/1 The vital essence employed for his subcuticle injections.

1987 Tissue & Cell 19 689/1 The apical plasma membrane that abuts on the glycosaminoglycan-rich subcuticle layer.