tegument
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1. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | body covering, |
| definition | : | any covering for the body or a body part (noun.body) |
| hypernym | : | connective tissue, |
| definition | : | tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | investment, |
| definition | : | outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | thick skin, |
| definition | : | skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | skin graft, |
| definition | : | a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | buff, |
| definition | : | bare skin; naked (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | dewlap, |
| definition | : | a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | foreskin, prepuce, |
| definition | : | a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | foreskin, prepuce, |
| definition | : | a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | scalp, |
| definition | : | the skin that covers the top of the head (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | cuticle, |
| definition | : | the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | agnail, hangnail, |
| definition | : | a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | pressure point, |
| definition | : | an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | cuticle, epidermis, |
| definition | : | the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | skin cell, |
| definition | : | any of the cells making up the skin (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | corium, derma, dermis, |
| definition | : | the deep vascular inner layer of the skin (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | macula, macule, |
| definition | : | a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | freckle, lentigo, |
| definition | : | a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | liver spot, |
| definition | : | a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | milium, whitehead, |
| definition | : | a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | blackhead, comedo, |
| definition | : | a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | pore, |
| definition | : | any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | scab, |
| definition | : | the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | free nerve ending, |
| definition | : | microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | pacinian corpuscle, |
| definition | : | a specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin; occurs abundantly in the skin of palms and soles and joints and genitals (noun.body) |
| substance holonym | : | melanin, |
| definition | : | insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers (noun.substance) |
| derivation | : | scrape, skin, |
| definition | : | bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | skinny, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or resembling skin (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | scrape, skin, |
| definition | : | bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | skinny, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or resembling skin (adj.pert) |
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