Definition of percutaneous in English:
percutaneous
adjective ˌpəːkjʊˈteɪnɪəsˌpərkjʊˈteɪniəs
Medicine Made, done, or effected through the skin.
percutaneous needle biopsy
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, when percutaneous lung biopsies are performed the needle can be guided in through the lung under direct vision.
- Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.
- Several types of skin testing instruments are available for percutaneous skin testing.
- The diagnosis was also confirmed in all three patients who had a preoperative percutaneous needle biopsy.
- Diagnosis usually requires incisional biopsy, but when necessary it can be made with a well planned percutaneous core needle biopsy.
Derivatives
adverb
Medicine With this method, blood cultures are taken simultaneously through the suspected central catheter and percutaneously from a distant site.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was not until the 1980s that therapeutic cardiac electrophysiology emerged; this procedure, carried out while patients are conscious, uses wires passed percutaneously to the heart to ablate the cause of arrhythmias.
- Another arterial catheter was placed percutaneously into the left brachial artery.
- Most of our specimens were obtained percutaneously either by the clinician, cytopathologist, or radiologist.
- Alternatively, a catheter can be inserted percutaneously through the anterior wall of the trachea.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin per cutem 'through the skin' + -aneous.
Definition of percutaneous in US English:
percutaneous
adjectiveˌpərkyo͝oˈtānēəsˌpərkjʊˈteɪniəs
Medicine Made, done, or effected through the skin.
percutaneous needle biopsy
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, when percutaneous lung biopsies are performed the needle can be guided in through the lung under direct vision.
- The diagnosis was also confirmed in all three patients who had a preoperative percutaneous needle biopsy.
- Several types of skin testing instruments are available for percutaneous skin testing.
- Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.
- Diagnosis usually requires incisional biopsy, but when necessary it can be made with a well planned percutaneous core needle biopsy.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin per cutem ‘through the skin’ + -aneous.