SKIN Copy link • SKIN 1. s. cutis (of men): tergus (of animals; both, the skin without hair): pellis (bristly, with pili): vellus (woolly, with villi. Men have cutis; elephants, snakes, etc., tergora; lions, goals, dogs, etc., pelles; sheep, vellera, Döderlein). Skin, when taken off, pellis: corium (thick hide): exuviae (poetical). A thin or fine skin, membrana; membranula (e.g., a fine membrane). Proverbially. He is all skin and bones, ossa atque pellis totus est (Plaut., Aul., 3, 6, 28); vix ossibus haeret (Verg.): I should not like to be in his skin, *nolim esse eo, quo ille est, loco: to come off with a whole skin, integrum abire; salvum evadere; latere tecto evadere (Ter., Heaut., 4, 2, 5, Ruhnken): the skin of a horse, pellis: his skin is harsh and dry, aret pellis (Verg.): a harsh, dry skin, pellis dura ac frigida: to cast its skin (of the serpent), pellem exuere; vernationem or senectam exuere. Skin of certain vegetables (e.g., the onion), cutis (thin covering of soft vegetables; e.g., of berries, of the kernel of a nut): membrana: tunica (membrana, of chestnuts, walnuts, etc.; tunica, of mushrooms, wheat, bark, etc.): corium (thick outward skin; e.g., of grapes): callus: callum (of apples, etc.): folliculus (husk of corn). 2. v. To take off a skin, pellem detrahere alicui or alicujus corpori (not deglubere). To cover with a skin: anything (e.g., a wound) is skinned over, obducta est alicui rei cicatrix.