Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Passed, done, or effected through the skin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Passed, done, or effected through or by means of the skin: as, percutaneous ligation.

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  • adjective Taking place through the skin

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)

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Examples

  • Back in February, one of Margaret’s many doctors, a short, autocratic Jewish Iraqi émigré, had inserted a flexible plastic tube known as a PEG an acronym of the medical term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy through her skin and into her stomach to drain everything she swallowed into a bag outside her body.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • Back in February, one of Margaret’s many doctors, a short, autocratic Jewish Iraqi émigré, had inserted a flexible plastic tube known as a PEG an acronym of the medical term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy through her skin and into her stomach to drain everything she swallowed into a bag outside her body.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • Back in February, one of Margaret’s many doctors, a short, autocratic Jewish Iraqi émigré, had inserted a flexible plastic tube known as a PEG an acronym of the medical term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy through her skin and into her stomach to drain everything she swallowed into a bag outside her body.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • Back in February, one of Margaret’s many doctors, a short, autocratic Jewish Iraqi émigré, had inserted a flexible plastic tube known as a PEG an acronym of the medical term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy through her skin and into her stomach to drain everything she swallowed into a bag outside her body.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • Back in February, one of Margaret’s many doctors, a short, autocratic Jewish Iraqi émigré, had inserted a flexible plastic tube known as a PEG an acronym of the medical term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy through her skin and into her stomach to drain everything she swallowed into a bag outside her body.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • The study looked at data from 500,154 procedures, which doctors call percutaneous coronary interventions, or PCI, and compared them against appropriateness criteria recently adopted by a team of 17 heart experts.

    Heart Treatment Overused Ron Winslow 2011

  • Balloon valvuloplasty, also called percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty, is a surgical procedure to open a narrowed heart valve, a condition called stenosis, in order to improve valve function and blood flow.

    The 10 Best Questions™ for Recovering from a Heart Attack Ph.D. Dede Bonner 2009

  • If approved, prasugrel would initially be used in heart patients undergoing a procedure known as percutaneous coronary intervention to open clogged arteries.

    FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Lilly's Prasugrel 2009

  • If approved, Prasugrel would initially be used in heart patients undergoing a procedure known as percutaneous coronary intervention to open clogged arteries.

    FDA Reviewers Recommend Agency Approve Prasugrel 2009

  • This is technically considered an interventional procedure rather than a surgery, is minimally invasive, and is also called a percutaneous coronary intervention.

    The 10 Best Questions™ for Recovering from a Heart Attack Ph.D. Dede Bonner 2009

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