Meaning and example
through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)
Transdermal estrogen
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.031 places percutaneous in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 48.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 48.8%
lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
- Known by
- 48.6%
try to stir up public opinion
- Known by
- 48.5%
the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- Known by
- 48.1%
the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers
- Known by
- 48%
not friendly
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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