The cutis consists of a fibro-areolar tissue and vessels of supply.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
This also accounted for the absence of all irritation and of the neuralgic pains usually accompanying spiderbite, when the mandibles merely perforate the epidermis and the poison is deposited in the upper cutis, where absorption is slow and local irritation consequently greater.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller
The epidermis will close over, and the cutis and the pellis.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore