How to Use cutaneous in a Sentence

cutaneous

adjective
  • Animal horns usually form around a bone, while cutaneous horns do not.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 6 June 2019
  • Below are some scar treatments that can be used for facial scars or cutaneous scarring on other parts of the body.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
  • Just a pinch more to dance on your cutaneous buds without getting showy, silly or aggressive with it.
    — Haley Laurence | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Up to one in five cases of cutaneous anthrax, the skin-infecting form, can be fatal.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2011
  • All that body bashing and face-to-face smearing in contact sports does wonders for spreading skin or cutaneous infections.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2013
  • The drug is administered once-weekly by sub-cutaneous injection.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • Hookworms can create a severely itchy condition called cutaneous larva migrans as the larval worm moves just under the skin of its host.
    — Julia Wuerz, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Some of them can no longer sleep alone, wet the bed at night, develop cutaneous diseases due to unbearable stress, and become isolated from society.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Ocular melanomas are the second most common type of melanoma -- after cutaneous, or skin, melanomas -- and represent about 5% of all melanoma cases.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • One Post employee is confirmed to have a cutaneous infection and a second shows symptoms of the same infection.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 13 May 2021
  • What's more, the effect was seen in both basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, with the largest drop in squamous cell cancers.
    — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Other breeds, like German shepherds, are the poster pups for cutaneous lupus, which can cause ulceration and destruction of the nose.
    — Dr. Devon B. Smith, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
  • ImmuneFx now is being tested in clinical trials on humans with cutaneous melanoma, one of the most common types of skin cancer.
    — Justine Griffin, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • There’s some just-short-of-gore medical fantasy that veers from the simple wonder of cutaneous special effects to the macabrely skeletal to the over-the-top surgical.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
  • Next, there's cutaneous lupus erythematosus, which is limited to the skin and causes various lesions and rashes.
    — Azmia Magane, Allure, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Enjoy these 10 ways to celebrate the cutaneous system that pulls you together, all handpicked by — you, actually.
    — Allure, 14 May 2019
  • The reduction was seen in non-melanoma skin cancers, including basal cell carcinoma, which is the most common, and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 17 Sep. 2025
  • If these cells become malignant, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma results.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • This framework confirms that emotional and cutaneous functions are intrinsically linked.
    — Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • What one wilderness doc thought was a simple rash or possibly the shingles on the top of his foot was actually a horde of cutaneous larva picked up while playing beach volleyball on the banks of the Amazon.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 25 June 2018
  • There are four types of anthrax—cutaneous, injection, inhalation and gastrointestinal—which occur when the bacteria enter through the skin, an injection, are breathed in or are eaten.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The most benign presentation, cutaneous anthrax, is caused by spores infecting small lesions on the face, neck, or extremities and is characterized by black painless ulcers.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Visceral leishmaniasis, the disease the parasite causes, leads to cutaneous sores on the skin, infections of organs including the spleen and liver and sometimes death.
    — Jim Daley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The collapse of insect-control programs sparked the spread of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that results in disfiguring skin ulcers.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Notably, the weight loss measured for both investigational therapeutics was less than rates observed for patients treated with available sub-cutaneous injectable options.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Up close, the vast expanse of the human skin resembles an unknown landscape, maybe similar to the lunar terrain, with craters and elevations in the form of minuscule blemishes, hairs, and cutaneous eruptions.
    — Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • Dermatologists may encounter patients who undergo the bagel head procedure and subsequently present with a cutaneous infection.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2016
  • In hindsight, this is likely when my cutaneous mastocytosis was progressing to systemic mastocytosis.
    — Shannon Dingey, Health, 1 July 2026
  • Although minor nicks or scratches on the skin's top layer usually won't leave a visible scar, most wounds and surgical incisions penetrating deeper into the skin will result in some cutaneous scarring.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
  • However, ocular melanomas behave much differently than cutaneous melanomas and are generally considered to be more lethal, according to Orloff.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018

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