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Cuticle

Cuticle | Cuticles

Cuticle meaning

The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis. | The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail. | Dead or cornified epidermis.

Example sentences (20)

Carry cuticle oil: Another way to make your pedicure last is to carry a cuticle oil and keep your feet soft, moisturized and prevent the polish from chipping.

The process of moulting in insects begins with the separation of the cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells (apolysis) and ends with the shedding of the old cuticle (ecdysis).

Although this wasn't exactly one of my goals when trying nail slugging, I am a cuticle picker — one of my nervous habits.

The hair cuticle layers are neither tightly compacted nor excessively raised.

These hair fibers are each composed of three distinct regions: the cuticle, and the outermost area consisting of lamellar layers of structural tissue.

A DIY avocado hair mask, applied to damp hair, can do wonders to lock in moisture at the level of the hair cuticle and along the hair strands.

CUTICLE – The beginning of this word is found in the bottom row.

Don’t forget to lather your cuticles in cuticle oil after removing all your nail polish.

In the 1990s, the picture of this mutualism was expanded to include another partner: an actinobacteria, Pseudonocardia, which lives on the ants' cuticle—their hard exoskeleton—where its cultures are fed by secretions of subcuticular glands.

It opens up the cuticle, so when we're doing a chemical or condition treatment, it will further penetrate and get inside that hair strand".

Daniel Myers was arrested after authorities linked his DNA to a trace amount found under Bogle's cuticle.

You’ll need the right tools, such as nail clippers, cuticle trimmers, nail files, and a buffer.

Drawn with a brush or stick on the nail and cuticle of the forefinger of the left hand, it is designed to last for weeks, until a new nail grows.

Since you eat both of those items with your hands, we went through an embarrassing amount of napkins, but it fit the atmosphere, and besides, doesn’t honey chive butter have the same benefits on your fingertips as cuticle oil?

The Tinea Pedis we talked about earlier can affect the fingernails, when a nail cutter and other instrument to remove cuticle are contaminated by the fungus in the toes or toenails of people with the infection.

Blues are typically created by microstructures in the cuticle that reflect blue light.

Chordotonal organs, unlike campaniform sensilla, exist beneath the cuticle and typically respond to stretch as opposed to distortion or bending.

Crocus flowers and leaves are protected from frost by a waxy cuticle; in areas where snow and frost occasionally occur in the early spring, it is not uncommon to see early flowering crocuses blooming through a light late snowfall.

Early cuticle may not have had pores but did not cover the entire plant surface, so that gas exchange could continue.

Endopterygotes have more alternatives to moulting, such as expansion of the cuticle and collapse of air sacs to allow growth of internal organs.