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Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

Subcutaneous.

Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.

Of or pertaining to the lungs and the akin; as, the pulmocutaneous arteries of the frog.

Situated under the skin; hypodermic. -- Sub`cu*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.

g under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a cent…

f the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

rom sunlight or from some form of electric lamp, used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous affections.

A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.

A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In…

A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.