cutaneous
IPA: kjutˈeɪniʌs
adjective
- (anatomy, zoology) Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin, especially the cutis.
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Examples of "cutaneous" in Sentences
- About 4,000 plus deal with so-called cutaneous anthrax.
- And then you have three cases of cutaneous, that is the skin form, of anthrax in New York.
- Even if there is anthrax in the envelope, it's very hard to actually get what is known as cutaneous anthrax.
- The drug will be used as a medication for a rare cancer known as cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and will have a wholesale price of $240 per daily treatment.
- There's the inhaled, the ingested and then, as we've seen in this latest case, the kind that you get through your skin or the so-called cutaneous anthrax.
- SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Susan, skin anthrax, also known as cutaneous anthrax, is usually caused by the anthrax bacteria coming in contact with broken skin.
- In the study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gave mice mega-doses of bexarotene, a drug used to treat a type of skin cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
- 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.
- It's one bacteria but three different ways you can get it -- either inhale it, ingest it -- what we've been hearing so much now in New York -- actually get it through your skin -- the so-called cutaneous version of anthrax.
- I mean as I said before, we have -- we have 18 cases in all of the 20th Century from pulmonary anthrax and maybe an average of four or five a year for cutaneous, which is, as I say 99 percent curable if you get antibiotics.
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