subcutaneous.

Located or occurring directly beneath the skin.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• subcutaneous swelling

On the page

A subcutaneous swelling shifted under her touch.

The needle entered the subcutaneous layer.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.