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TRANSDERMAL

Dictionary entry overview: What does transdermal mean?

• TRANSDERMAL (adjective)
The adjective TRANSDERMAL has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: TRANSDERMAL used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TRANSDERMAL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

percutaneous; transcutaneous; transdermal; transdermic

Context examples:

transdermal estrogen / percutaneous absorption

Domain category:

materia medica; pharmacological medicine; pharmacology (the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects)

Pertainym:

dermis (the deep vascular inner layer of the skin)

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