skin

The external covering of the body in man and in most of the lower animals. It consists of three layers: the epidermis, corium, and subcutaneous connective ti ue, bronzed s. See Add is on's disease. elastic s. Syn.: cutis elastic a. A rare condition in which the skin, without other changes, po e es abnormal elasticity. The "India-rubber men" who exhibit themselves as freaks are examples of this condition, fish s. 1. See ichthyosis. 2. A form of malignant variola observed in Brazil and occasionally in Europe, glo y S. A cutaneous disease of neuropathic origin, usually affecting the extremities and more especially the fingers, the skin of which becomes smooth, glo y, and pinkish or reddish, with atrophy, alopecia, and lo of the natural lines or furrows. Sometimes the surface is fi ured or excoriated. goldbeaters' s. A very thin and tenacious sheet prepared from the peritoneal coat of the cecum of the ox; laid between the sheets of gold in the proce of gold beating, and occasionally used in surgery as a dre ing. goose S. See cutis an serin a, under cutis. loose s. See derma to lysis. piebald s. Any disease characterized by persistent spots of coloration or discoloration, reentering s. A mucous membrane, scale s. See ichythyosis. s. grafting. The supplying of deficit in the skin by transplanting either bits of epidermis or large strips of the entire skin on a denuded surface. It is auto dermic when the grafts are taken from the skin of the patient himself, hetero dermic when the grafts are taken from the skin of other persons, a'nd zoo dermic when the grafts are taken from animals other than man. s. reaction of von Pirquet. See Pirquet. true s. See corium (1st def.). [Old Norse, skinn.1