subcutaneous
adjective
situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
subcutaneously
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a word derived from
subcutaneous.
Example Sentences
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The team subcutaneously transplanted weakly immunogenic and strongly immunogenic tumor cells into B4GALT3 knockout and wild-type mice, to examine for tumor cell growth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
Now, board certified licensed plastic surgeons make sure fat is injected subcutaneously, above the muscle, in order to avoid injury to the gluteal vein.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2023
Rather than injecting the shots subcutaneously, a traditional way of delivering vaccines into the fatty tissue under the skin, the doses would be injected under the top layer of the skin.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2022
The plan involves shrinking the dosage of the vaccine to one-fifth the current measurement by administering the shot intradermally — between layers of skin — as opposed to subcutaneously, into the underlying fat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
