cutis UK /ˈkjuːtɪs/US /ˈkjutəs/ noun2 •The true skin, underlying the epidermis.I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […] — 1749 •The peridium of some fungi. formscutes