transcutaneous
adjEtymology From trans- + cutaneous.
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Medicine, Sciences Penetrating, entering, passing through, or shining through the intact skin (as by light waves or sound waves); in contrast to percutaneous meaning through a disruption in the skin.
- Transcutaneous measurement of oxygen is a helpful monitoring procedure.
- Synonyms
- transdermal
- Derived terms
- transcutaneously
- Coordinate terms
- percutaneous