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The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.

Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

hrough the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. Quain.

Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope.

ch intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.

A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.