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percutaneous

/pɜːkjuːˈteɪnɪəs/

percutaneous adjective: taking place through the skin and involving a puncture thereof.

Adjective

percutaneous (not comparable)

  1. Taking place through the skin and involving a puncture thereof.
    • percutaneous procedure
    • percutaneous intervention

percutaneous meaning in Tamil

percutaneous in Tamil

சருமத் தூடு, தோலில், தோல் வழி

Examples of percutaneous in a sentence

  • percutaneous catheter
  • The doctor performed a percutaneous biopsy.
  • Percutaneous methods reduce the need for open surgery.

Origin of percutaneous

From per- + cutaneous.

Words formed from percutaneous

Words that rhyme with percutaneous

Questions about percutaneous

What does percutaneous mean?
Percutaneous means taking place through the skin and involving a puncture thereof.
What is percutaneous in Tamil?
Percutaneous in Tamil is சருமத் தூடு, தோலில், தோல் வழி. See Percutaneous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use percutaneous in a sentence?
percutaneous catheter
What part of speech is percutaneous?
Percutaneous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce percutaneous?
Percutaneous is pronounced /pɜːkjuːˈteɪnɪəs/ (UK).

Words near percutaneous in the dictionary

  1. percussively
  2. percussiveness
  3. percussives
  4. percussor
  5. percussors
  6. percutaneous
  7. percutaneous coronary intervention
  8. percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
  9. percutaneously
  10. percute
  11. percuted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: percutaneous (page history and authors); percutaneous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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