different between cuticle vs tegument

English

Etymology

From Middle French cuticule, from Latin cuticula (“cuticle, skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?t?k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

cuticle (plural cuticles)

1. The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
2. The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
3. Dead or cornified epidermis.
4. (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
5. A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

Synonyms

• (zoology, botany) (outer protective covering): cuticula

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• nail
• thumbnail
• toenail
• quick

English

Etymology

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) +? -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.j?.m?nt/

Noun

tegument (plural teguments)

1. Something which covers; a covering or coating.
   • 1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
2. (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

Derived terms

• tegumental
• tegumentary
• tegumented

Related terms

• integument

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French tégument, from Latin tegumentum.

Noun

tegument n (plural tegumente)

1. tegument

Declension