[
US
/ˌkjuˈteɪˌniəs/
]
[ UK /kjuːtˈeɪniəs/ ]
[ UK /kjuːtˈeɪniəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or existing on or affecting the skin
a cutaneous infection
cutaneous nerves
How To Use cutaneous In A Sentence
- Three cases involved a septic knee joint, and two patients developed subcutaneous abscesses.
- Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.
- A percutaneous tenotomy of the Achillis tendon is often necessary to completely correct the equinus.
- Result: The sword-like needle therapy is very effective to cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome of the waist and buttock.
- Any organ can be involved, but most frequently hemangiomas are localized to the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
- After the surgeon makes the initial skin incision and ensures hemostasis, he or she incises the subcutaneous tissue.
- Cutaneous glands include the sebaceous, sweat, lacrimal, and mammary glands.
- The dose of vaccine is 0.5 cc (25 ug of polysaccharide capsule material from each of the 23 serotypes) and may be given intramuscularly or subcutaneously.
- A child who suffered multiple injuries in a road traffic accident in Italy was given subcutaneous injections of nerve growth factor in a last ditch effort to save an ischaemic leg.
- In 1935 Cornbleet was the first to describe a thickening of the subcutaneous fat layer of the scalp.