1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Cutaneous

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or affecting the skin.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin; especially the cutis

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; ; a cutaneous infection.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to the skin; of the nature of or resembling skin; tegumentary: as, a cutaneous envelop.

Affecting the skin: as, a cutaneous eruption; a cutaneous disease.

Attached to, acting upon, or situated immediately below the skin; subcutaneous: as, a cutaneous muscle.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to or existing on or affecting the skin

Word Usage

"In veterinary practice the difference is difficult to distinguish, and probably not clinically important in most cases, and the more general term cutaneous adverse food reaction CAFR is often used."

Cross Reference

cutaneous absorption dermal

Form

cutaneal cutaneously subcutaneous

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

skip

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

allergic pulmonary gastrointestinal venereal ovarian