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"Tegument" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the cruel usage which this useful servant to man should receive at man's hand, did prudently in furnishing him with a tegument impervious to ordinary stripes. The malice of a child or a weak hand can make feeble impressions on him. His back offers no mark to a puny foeman. To a common whip or switch his hide presents an absolute insensibility. You might as well pretend to scourge a school-boy with a tough ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various |
Words linked to "Tegument" : pore, freckle, corium, free nerve ending, scalp, hangnail, epidermis, agnail, macula, melanin, connective tissue, macule, line, seam, skin cell, sweat gland, cutis, scab, derma, comedo, sudoriferous gland, crinkle, prepuce, lentigo, foreskin, milium, blackhead, dermis, crease, body covering, thick skin, liver spot, whitehead, Pacinian corpuscle, skin graft, cuticle, investment, pressure point, furrow, dewlap, wrinkle, buff, skin |
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