Cutaneous

Definition: Cutaneous

Cutaneous

Adjective

1. Relating to or existing on or affecting the skin; "cutaneous nerves"; "a cutaneous infection".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cutaneous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Health

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Cutaneous

Covering

Adjective: covering; Verb: superimposed, overlaid, plated; Verb: cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered; Verb: imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate.

Crosswords: Cutaneous

Books

• Controversies and Coversations in Cutaneous Laser Surgery (reference)

• Cutaneous Cryosurgery: Principles and Clinical Practice (reference)

• Cutaneous Laser Surgery: The Art and Science of Selective Photothermolysis (reference)

• Cutaneous Melanoma (reference)

• Cutaneous t Cell Lymphoma: Basic and Clinically Relevant Biology (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 941) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Cutaneous Medicine And Surgery (reference)

• Seminars In Cutaneous Medicine And Surgery (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Anthrax skin lesion on face of man. Cutaneous. Credit: CDC.

27 year old white female with cutaneous anthrax on right forearm; patient had worked in a spinning department of a goat hair processing plant for 3 years; lesion as seen on 12th day. Credit: CDC.

Cutaneous anthrax lesion on left forearm of a white male. Credit: CDC.

53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC.

Here the disease has manifested itself as a cutaneous ulceration, which has begun to turn black, hence the origin of the name "Anthrax", after the Greek name for coal. Credit: CDC.

This patient has pigmented macules and papules of skin resulting from a cutaneous reaction during secondary syphilis, which is the most contagious of all the stages, and is characterized by the spread of the bacteria throughout the body. Credit: CDC.

This 50 year old female had been a carder in a wool factory for 6 years. This lesion is on the 8th day of the illness. Cutaneous anthrax usually occurs after skin contact with contaminated meat, wool, hides, or leather from infected animals. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

This is referred to as a creeping eruption or cutaneous larva migrans. (references)

About 20% of untreated cases of cutaneous anthrax will result in death. (references)

Complications and deaths are much less frequent in cutaneous diphtheria. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cutaneous": cutaneous anthrax ♦ cutaneous breast cancer ♦ Cutaneous Drug Reactions ♦ cutaneous eruption ♦ Cutaneous Fistula ♦ cutaneous larva migrans ♦ cutaneous leishmaniasis ♦ cutaneous sensation ♦ cutaneous senses ♦ cutaneous sensing ♦ cutaneous T-cell lymphoma ♦ cutaneous test ♦ cutaneous toxicity ♦ cutaneous vein ♦ delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity ♦ Passive Cutaneous Anaphylaxis ♦ stage I cutaneous T-cell lymphoma ♦ stage II cutaneous T-cell lymphoma ♦ stage III cutaneous T-cell lymphoma ♦ stage IV cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Additional references.

Ending with "cutaneous": trans-cutaneous.

Albanian

i lëkurës (dermal, dermatic, dermic). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جلدي (coriaceous, dermal, leathern, skinny). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кожен (dermal, dermatic, furry, leather, leathern). (various references)

Chinese 

皮肤 (Dermal, skin). (various references)

Czech

kožní (dermal, dermatic). (various references)

Danish

kutan- (skin-related), kutan, hud- (dermal). (various references)

Dutch

cutaan. (various references)

Farsi 

پوستی (Pelting, Skinny), جلدی . (various references)

Finnish

candidiasis cutanea (cutaneous candidiasis), primaari iholymfooma (cutaneous lymphoma), mycosis fungoides (cutaneous lymphoma), ihon kandidoosi (cutaneous candidiasis), ihon kandidiaasi (cutaneous candidiasis), ihon immunologiset tutkimukset (cutaneous immunology), ihon hiivasienitauti (cutaneous candidiasis). (various references)

French

cutané. (various references)

German

kutan, Haut (dermal, dermis, hews, hide, integument, Peel, pelt, skin). (various references)

Greek 

δερματικόσ (dermal), δερματικός. (various references)

Hungarian

bõr- (coriaceous, dermal, dermic). (various references)

Italian

cutaneo (integumentary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

皮膚感覚 (cutaneous sensation), 皮膚呼吸 (cutaneous respiration). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひふか�"かく (cutaneous sensation), ひふ�"きゅう (cutaneous respiration). (various references)

Manx

craitnagh (skinlike, skinny, webbed). (various references)

Pig Latin

utaneouscay

Portuguese

cutâneo (raw-boned, skinny), cutâneo, de pele (furry). (various references)

Romanian

cutanat. (various references)

Russian 

кожный (dermal, dermatic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kutani, kožni (dermal, leather, leathern, skin). (various references)

Spanish

cutáneo. (various references)

Swedish

candidiasis (cutaneous candidiasis), torsk (cod, codfish, thrush), dermal candidiasis (cutaneous candidiasis). (various references)

Turkish

cilt (binder, binding, complexion, derm, hide, skin, tome, volume), deriyle ilgili, deri (coriaceous, derm, fell, hide, integument, leather, pelt, rind, skin). (various references)

Ukrainian

шкірний (dermal, dermatic). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cutaneous": cutaneously. (additional references)

Words ending with "cutaneous": intracutaneous, mucocutaneous, percutaneous, subcutaneous, transcutaneous. (additional references)

Words containing "cutaneous": intracutaneously, percutaneously, subcutaneously. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acetous, conatus, contuse, coteaus, couteau, nutcase, octanes, soutane, tenuous, toucans, usaunce.

-3 letters: acutes, ascent, atones, canoes, cantos, cantus, centas, centos, contes, costae, cotans, coteau, counts, cuesta, enacts, oceans, octane, octans, ounces, secant, stance, toucan, uncase, uncute, unseat, usance.

-4 letters: acnes, acute, aeons, antes, ascot, atone, aunts, autos, canes, canoe, canso, canst, canto, cants.

+2 letters: cutaneously.

+3 letters: cautiousness, percutaneous, subcutaneous, unaccustomed, untouchables.

+4 letters: counterargues, elucubrations, mucocutaneous, tubocurarines, unconsummated.

+5 letters: cautiousnesses, consuetudinary, counterassault, countermeasure, incautiousness, intracutaneous, percutaneously, repunctuations, subcutaneously, transcutaneous, unaccustomedly.