EGAVE

subcutaneously

About 0.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adverb Under the cutaneous layer of the skin.
    The injection was given subcutaneously, which should have hurt less than intramuscularly but still hurt a great deal.

Similar words

subdermally subepidermally subdermically transcutaneously sublingually subsuturally sublabially subretinally submucously intradermically

Often followed by

in or into with and to at injected every

Word family

subcutaneous

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