How to Use cutaneous in a Sentence

cutaneous

adjective
Definition of cutaneousnext
  • Up to one in five cases of cutaneous anthrax, the skin-infecting form, can be fatal.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2011
  • Just a pinch more to dance on your cutaneous buds without getting showy, silly or aggressive with it.
    — Haley Laurence | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Animal horns usually form around a bone, while cutaneous horns do not.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 6 June 2019
  • All that body bashing and face-to-face smearing in contact sports does wonders for spreading skin or cutaneous infections.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2013
  • Ocular melanomas are the second most common type of melanoma -- after cutaneous, or skin, melanomas -- and represent about 5% of all melanoma cases.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • There’s some just-short-of-gore medical fantasy that veers from the simple wonder of cutaneous special effects to the macabrely skeletal to the over-the-top surgical.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
  • One Post employee is confirmed to have a cutaneous infection and a second shows symptoms of the same infection.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 13 May 2021
  • What one wilderness doc thought was a simple rash or possibly the shingles on the top of his foot was actually a horde of cutaneous larva picked up while playing beach volleyball on the banks of the Amazon.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 25 June 2018
  • There are three types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly) and gastrointestinal (through digestion).
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 13 May 2021
  • ImmuneFx now is being tested in clinical trials on humans with cutaneous melanoma, one of the most common types of skin cancer.
    — Justine Griffin, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Enjoy these 10 ways to celebrate the cutaneous system that pulls you together, all handpicked by — you, actually.
    — Allure, 14 May 2019
  • The drug is administered once-weekly by sub-cutaneous injection.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • Next, there's cutaneous lupus erythematosus, which is limited to the skin and causes various lesions and rashes.
    — Azmia Magane, Allure, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Injection anthrax, where a needle introduces the anthrax spores into the body, has symptoms similar to cutaneous anthrax but may include an infection deep under the skin or in the muscle where the drug was injected, the CDC says.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Visceral leishmaniasis, the disease the parasite causes, leads to cutaneous sores on the skin, infections of organs including the spleen and liver and sometimes death.
    — Jim Daley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The intergalactic sheen of the inorganic seems omnipresent, tinging everything from eyes, lips and nails to gilded temporary tattoos, cutaneous body adornments, to even the most ubiquitous handheld device, the rose gold iPhone 6s.
    — Michael Rock, New York Times, 7 June 2016
  • Human papillomavirus and cutaneous warts in meat handlers.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2011
  • The most benign presentation, cutaneous anthrax, is caused by spores infecting small lesions on the face, neck, or extremities and is characterized by black painless ulcers.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
  • One migraine symptom that has worsened after REM sleep deprivation is cutaneous allodynia, when someone feels pain after their skin is touched in way that usually doesn't produce pain, according to the study.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The collapse of insect-control programs sparked the spread of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that results in disfiguring skin ulcers.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The hope for toddlers with peanut allergy DBV Technologies, which focuses on pediatric cutaneous treatment for food allergies, conducted the trial with 413 subjects across eight countries.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 12 May 2023
  • As sinusitis is caused by inflammation of the tissues lining the nose and sinuses, this monumental jump from sino-nasal inflammation and trans-cutaneous (via the skin) anti-inflammatory effects via taping is quite a stretch.
    — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • However, ocular melanomas behave much differently than cutaneous melanomas and are generally considered to be more lethal, according to Orloff.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • The first wash of its kind, Microbiome Balancing Cleanser is specifically formulated to support the health, balance & comfort of skin prone to bacterial & fungal folliculitis or cutaneous candida.
    — Essence, 20 Sep. 2021
  • While a biopsy of the skin is often not needed for diagnosis of psoriasis, Dr. Brodell says sometimes a dermatologist may choose to perform a biopsy to exclude other possible conditions that also include scaling, such as cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Dermatologists may encounter patients who undergo the bagel head procedure and subsequently present with a cutaneous infection.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2016
  • Lo and behold, there are actually many different cutaneous disorders — including but not limited to eczema, psoriasis, and hidradenitis suppurativa — that can all affect the vulva, too.
    — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 5 May 2021
  • These muscle activations will generate proprioceptive and cutaneous feedback that will activate somatosensory areas, as well as in brain regions that receive input from the superior colliculus.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Also, when cutaneous cold and tactile sensitivity was diminished by a selective reduction in the activity of A-nerve afferents, wetness perception was significantly reduced.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2016
  • There are actually five types of cutaneous hypersensitivity.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021

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