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Subcutaneous   Listen
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Subcutaneous  adj.  Situated under the skin; hypodermic.
Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.






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"Subcutaneous" Quotes from Famous Books



... elevations, usually large and prominent, and having their seat in the corium and subcutaneous tissue; as, for example, sebaceous tumors, gummata, ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... distinguished from ecchymosis the result of a bruise, by making an incision into the part; in the case of hypostasis a few small bloody points of divided arteries will be seen, in the case of ecchymosis the subcutaneous tissues are infiltrated with blood-clot. Internally, hypostasis must not be mistaken for congestion of the brain or lungs, or the results of inflammation of the intestines. If the intestine is pulled straight, ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... beautiful and complex structure. It is made up of an outer layer called the epidermis and an inner layer, the true skin or corium, which rests upon a subcutaneous layer, composed principally of fat ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... he kept on prescribing for me, I thought I might depend on both. Change of physicians, however, saved my life. This horse doctor, a few weeks afterward, administered a subcutaneous morphine squirt in the arm of a healthy servant girl because she had the headache, and she is now with the rest of this veterinarian's patients in a land that is ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye



Words linked to "Subcutaneous" :   subcutaneous test, skin, subcutaneous injection



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