cutaneous

Contents

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 9 February 2011

Alternative formsEdit

• cutaneious

EtymologyEdit

From New Latin *cutaneus, from Latin cutis ‎(“skin”)

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -eɪniəs

AdjectiveEdit

cutaneous ‎(not comparable)

1. (anatomy, zoology) Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin; especially the cutis

Derived termsEdit

• cutaneal
• cutaneously
• subcutaneous

Related termsEdit

• cuticle
• transcutaneous

TranslationsEdit

of, or relating to the skin

• Bulgarian: кожен ‎(kožen)
• Catalan: cutani, epidèrmic, dermatològic
• Czech: kožní (cs)
• Finnish: kutaaninen, iho- (fi)
• French: cutané (fr), épidermique (fr), dermatologique (fr)
• Greek: δερματικός (el) m ‎(dermatikós)

• Icelandic: húð-
• Italian: cutaneo (it)
• Polish: skórny (pl)
• Portuguese: cutâneo (pt)
• Spanish: cutáneo (es), dermatológico, epidérmico
• Welsh: croeniog

See alsoEdit

• dermal
• Intercutaneous
• myocutaneous
• percutaneous
• renocutaneous
• enterocutaneous
• intracutaneous
• epicutaneous
• mucocutaneous
• subcutaneous
• colocutaneous
• gastrocutaneous
• mucosocutaneous
• neurocutaneous
• pulmocutaneous
• transcutaneous
• ileocutaneous
• musculocutaneous
• oculocutaneous
• rectocutaneous
• supracutaneous

External linksEdit

• cutaneous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• cutaneous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911