subcutaneous
/ˌsʌbkjuːˈteɪnɪəs
/adjective Anatomy & Medicine
Situated or applied under the skin: subcutaneous fat...
- The septum of these catheters is sutured under the skin in the subcutaneous tissue.
- Any organ can be involved, but most frequently hemangiomas are localized to the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
- The superficial veins conduct blood from the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
Derivatives
subcutaneously
- Some casualty departments and ambulance services now recommend giving naloxone intramuscularly or subcutaneously rather than intravenously because it can be given more quickly and results in less violent recovery.
- Pneumococcal vaccine is administered intramuscularly or subcutaneously as one 0.5-mL dose.
- Healthy elderly volunteers were infused with normal saline either intravenously or subcutaneously, using radioisotopic triated water and technetium pertechnetate.
Rhymes
- frost riving
- Frost, Robert
- frost-sensitive
- frost smoke
- frost stat
- frost-tender
- frost thrust
- frost thrusting
- frost time
- frost tolerance
- frost tolerant
- frost valve
- frostweed
- frostwork
- frostwort
- frost wounds
- frosty
- frosty cold
- frosty face
- frosty moon
- froth
- froth at the mouth
- frother
- frothily
- frothiness