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INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The skin and its appendages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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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