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PERCUTANEOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)
Example:
percutaneous absorption
Synonyms:
percutaneous; transcutaneous; transdermal; transdermic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
materia medica; pharmacological medicine; pharmacology (the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects)
Pertainym:
skin (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
Context examples:
Also called alcohol ablation, ethanol ablation, and percutaneous ethanol injection.
(PEI, NCI Dictionary)
A measure of procedural success during a percutaneous coronary intervention when a guidewire can be deployed across a coronary artery lesion.
(Guidewire Across Lesion, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
A percutaneous coronary intervention is necessary for a myocardial infarction that presents with ST segment elevation and the subject does not have recurrent or persistent symptoms, symptoms of heart failure or ventricular arrhythmia.
(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction-Stable-Over 12 Hours From Symptom Onset, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Giving food through a percutaneous endoscopic tube is a type of enteral nutrition.
(Percutaneous endoscopic tube, NCI Dictionary)
A percutaneous coronary intervention is necessary for a myocardial infarction that presents with ST segment elevation and the subject has recurrent or persistent symptoms, symptoms of heart failure or ventricular arrhythmia.
(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction-Unstable-Over 12 Hours From Symptom Onset, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Also called PEG tube and percutaneous endoscopic tube.
(Gastrostomy tube, NCI Dictionary)
Endotracheal intubation which occurs before a percutaneous coronary intervention can take place.
(Endotracheal Intubation before Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Catheters with a balloon on the tip are used in the procedure called percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
(Cardiac Catheterization, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called ethanol ablation, PEI, and percutaneous ethanol injection.
(Alcohol ablation, NCI Dictionary)
A device or treatment used to stop bleeding and close the location of arterial entry following a percutaneous coronary intervention.
(Arterial Access Closure, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
