mucosum

The epidermis consists of two main layers, namely, the stratum corneum, which covers the surface, and the stratum mucosum, which is just beneath the covering surface.

The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933

Hence it may be conceived, that the rete mucosum, which is the extremity of the nerves of touch, may by imitating the motions of the retina become coloured.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Malpighi discovered a third layer interposed between these, consisting of a sort of network, thence called _rete mucosum_, and believed to be the seat of colour in the negro.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

Commencing from below and proceeding upwards, we find that the lowermost cells of the rete mucosum, those that are set immediately on the corium, are columnar in shape.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

Lay aside your deeper studies, then, and turn for a while to our lighter sketches; forget the globules of the blood in the contemplation of red billiard balls; supplant the _tunica arachnoidea_ of the brain by a gossamer hat -- the _rete mucosum_ of the skin by a pea-jacket; the vital fluid by a pot of half-and-half.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various

Others of the papillæ contain nerves, ending here in tactile corpuscles, or continuing, as we have mentioned before, to ramify as fine fibrils in the rete mucosum of the epidermis.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

Above them, and forming the most superficial layer of the rete mucosum, is a series of flattened, granular-looking cells known as the _stratum granulosum_.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

The epidermis is devoid of bloodvessels, but is provided with fine nerve fibrils which ramify between the cells of the rete mucosum.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

The deeper and more active layer of the epidermis, the _mucosum_, is made up of cells some of which contain minute granules of pigment, or coloring matter, that give color to the skin.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

However, if a more serious injury is inflicted on the bulb of the finger, thereby damaging the stratum mucosum, the friction skin will heal, but not in its original formation.

The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933