[L. corium skin, hide, leather.]
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. ii. 73. Twice a day the foresaid Squires of the Body should Flebotomize her salt Corium.
1. Phys. The true skin or derma under the epidermis.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 246/1. The integument is composed of two layers or pellicles, viz. the epidermis and the corium.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 26. The corium contains yellow (or elastic) as well as white fibres.
2. Entom. The leathery or horny basal portion of the wing of a heteropterous insect.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), III. xxxv. 614. In Aradus depressus the corium is driven to the base of the wing.
3. Antiq. A leathern body-armor formed of overlapping flaps or scales.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 52.
1860. Fairholt, Costume, Gloss. s.v., He wears a leathern corium, the flaps of which are of different colours.
