Percutaneous

Definition: Percutaneous

Percutaneous

Adjective

1. (pharmacology) through the unbroken skin (refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)); "transdermal estrogen"; " percutaneous absorption".

Specialty Definitions: Percutaneous

Domain	Definitions
Health	Performed through the skin, as injection of radiopacque material in radiological examination, or the removal of tissue for biopsy accomplished by a needle. (references)
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Synonyms: Percutaneous

Synonyms: transcutaneous (adj), transdermal (adj), transdermic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Percutaneous

English words defined with "percutaneous": transcutaneous, transdermal, transdermic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "percutaneous": Angioplasty, Balloon, Angioplasty, Transluminal, Percutaneous Coronary, Aortography, Atherectomy, Coronary ♦ Diskectomy, Diskectomy, Percutaneous ♦ Nephrostomy, Percutaneous ♦ percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, Phonophoresis, PTC ♦ Radiography, Interventional ♦ Tissue Expanders. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Percutaneous

Domain	Title
Books	Endovascular and Percutaneous Therapy of the Brain and Spine (reference) Myocardial Revascularization: Novel Percutaneous Approaches (reference) Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty (reference) Percutaneous Prostate Cryoablation (reference) Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Percutaneous

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Pedestal fracture is a problem unique to the percutaneous device, but occurs rarely. (references)
		MTBE is usually introduced via a percutaneous transhepatic catheter into the gallbladder. (references)
		Sometimes a procedure called percutaneous nephrolithotomy is recommended to remove a stone. (references)
Business		Among these products are disposable surgical supplies, rental fees for surgical equipment, bone cement injection equipment for orthopedic surgery, trocar for endoscopy, certain products for percutaneous coronary artery stenting, syringes and needles. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Percutaneous

"Percutaneous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Percutaneous" is used about 122 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.36%	120	29,358
Noun (proper)	1.64%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	122	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Percutaneous

Expression using "percutaneous": Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "percutaneous": percutaneous-endoscopic.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Percutaneous

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
percutaneous	15	endoscopic gastrostomy percutaneous tube	3
percutaneous discectomy	13	catheter intravenous percutaneous	3
percutaneous nephrolithotomy	10	fusion percutaneous spinal spondylolisthesis	3
endoscopic gastrostomy percutaneous	9	intervention percutaneous	3
coronary intervention percutaneous	9	percutaneous release	3
percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty	6	activity disc epidural herniated percutaneous steroid	2
neuromodulation percutaneous therapy	6	percutaneous tracheostomy	2
percutaneous vertebroplasty	6	catheter infant percutaneous premature silastic	2
nephrostomy percutaneous	4	discectomy endoscopic percutaneous	2
decompression disc laser percutaneous	4	diskectomy percutaneous	2
percutaneous transluminal angioplasty	4	decompression disc laser percutaneous seattle	2
percutaneous lumbar discectomy	4	asd percutaneous repair	2
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Modern Translations: Percutaneous

Language		Translations for "percutaneous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		подкожен (hypodermic, subcutaneous, subdermal). (various references)

Chinese		经皮. (various references)

Danish		perkutan (transcutaneous, transhepatic percutaneous cholangiography). (various references)

Dutch		percutaan (transcutaneous). (various references)

French		percutané, percutané. (various references)

German		perkutan (through the skin, transcutaneous). (various references)

Greek		διαδερμικός (transcutaneous). (various references)

Italian		percutaneo (transcutaneous). (various references)

Korean		경�"�. (various references)

Pig Latin		ercutaneouspay

Portuguese		percutâneo, percutâneo. (various references)

Spanish		percutáneo. (various references)

Turkish		perkütan, deri içine yapılan. (various references)
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Derivations: Percutaneous

Derivations
	Words beginning with "percutaneous": percutaneously. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Percutaneous"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "percutaneous" (pronounced perkyuwtā"nēus)
6	-t ā" n ē u s	simultaneous, spontaneous.
5	-ā" n ē u s	contemporaneous, extraneous, miscellaneous.
4	-n ē u s	acrimonious, erroneous, felonious, harmonious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, instantaneous, sanctimonious, unceremonious.
3	-ē u s	alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, fastidious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, hideous, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, previous, punctilious, radius, Sartorius, serious, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Anagrams: Percutaneous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: countersue.
	-3 letters: carotenes, conepates, coparents, copresent, courantes, courtesan, cutaneous, nectarous, outcapers, outpreens, outrances, personate, portances, preenacts, prosecute, punctures, pursuance, supercute, uncreates.
	-4 letters: acetones, ancestor, apterous, capstone, captures, carotene, centares, centaurs, cernuous, coenures, coenurus, conepate, construe, coparent, counters, courante, courants, coutures, cupreous, cutpurse, earstone, enactors, eupnoeas, nacreous, notecase, opencast, operants, operates, outcaper, outcurse, outearns.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: percutaneously.
	+4 letters: superfecundation, superspeculation.
	+5 letters: superfecundations, superspeculations.
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