cutaneous
English
WOTD – 9 February 2011
Alternative forms
Etymology
From New Latin *cutaneus, from Latin cutis (“skin”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kjuːˈteɪniəs/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kjuˈteɪniəs/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /kjʉːˈtæɪniəs/
Audio (Queensland): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪniəs
Adjective
cutaneous (not comparable)
- (anatomy, zoology) Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin, especially the cutis.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- abdominocutaneous
- anocutaneous
- bronchopleurocutaneous
- cardiocutaneous
- cardiofaciocutaneous
- cellulocutaneous
- chondrocutaneous
- colocutaneous
- congenital cutaneous candidiasis
- cutaneous leishmaniasis
- cutaneously
- cutaneous rabbit effect
- cutaneous rabbit illusion
- diacutaneous
- electrocutaneous
- enterocutaneous
- epicutaneous
- esophagocutaneous
- extracutaneous
- fasciocutaneous
- gastrocutaneous
- ileocutaneous
- inguinocutaneous
- intercutaneous
- intestinocutaneous
- intracutaneous
- lymphocutaneous
- mucocutaneous
- mucosocutaneous
- musculocutaneous
- musulocutaneous
- myocutaneous
- neurocutaneous
- neurooculocutaneous
- noncutaneous
- oculocutaneous
- orocutaneous
- osteocutaneous
- percutaneous
- pericutaneous
- pharyngocutaneous
- pleurocutaneous
- precutaneous
- psychocutaneous
- pulmocutaneous
- rectocutaneous
- renocutaneous
- septocutaneous
- subcutaneous
- supercutaneous
- supracutaneous
- tracheocutaneous
- transcutaneous
- ureterocutaneous
- urethrocutaneous
- viscerocutaneous
Related terms
Translations
of, or relating to the skin
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Further reading
- “cutaneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cutaneous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.