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INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The skin and its appendages
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("integumentary system" is a kind of...):
system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)
Meronyms (parts of "integumentary system"):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)
glandulae sebaceae; sebaceous follicle; sebaceous gland (a cutaneous gland that secretes sebum (usually into a hair follicle) for lubricating hair and skin)
nail (horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits)
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