Word.ws English Dictionary

transdermal

transdermal adjective: through the unbroken skin (as for example with measurements of blood glucose level with an optical glucometer using photometry or of oxygen saturation via pulse oximetry).

Adjective

transdermal (not comparable)

  1. Through the unbroken skin (as for example with measurements of blood glucose level with an optical glucometer using photometry or of oxygen saturation via pulse oximetry).
    Synonyms:
    transcutaneous

Noun

transdermal (plural transdermals)

  1. A transdermal patch or implant.

Synonyms of transdermal

Forms of transdermal

pluraltransdermals

Origin of transdermal

From trans- + dermal.

Words formed from transdermal

Phrases with transdermal

Questions about transdermal

What does transdermal mean?
Transdermal means through the unbroken skin (as for example with measurements of blood glucose level with an optical glucometer using photometry or of oxygen saturation via pulse oximetry).
What part of speech is transdermal?
Transdermal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near transdermal in the dictionary

  1. transdeletion
  2. transdeletions
  3. transdenominational
  4. transderivational
  5. transderivationally
  6. transdermal
  7. transdermal patch
  8. transdermal patches
  9. transdermally
  10. transdermals
  11. transdermic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transdermal (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “transdermal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/transdermal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.