title: Cuticle (disambiguation)
text: # Cuticle (disambiguation)
  
  A cuticle, or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection, including:
  
  * Cuticle (hair), the outermost part of a hair shaft
  * Cuticle (nail) or eponychium, in human anatomy, the thickened layer of skin surrounding finger- and toenails
  * Primary enamel cuticle, a covering of the crown of a newly erupted tooth
  * Arthropod cuticle, the major part of the integument, including most of the exoskeleton, of the Arthropoda
  * Plant cuticle, or cuticula, a waxy polymeric film covering all aerial plant surfaces
  * Pileipellis or cuticle, the uppermost protective layer of a fungal fruit body
  