subcuticularadj.

1697 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies (ed. 5) i. iv. 22 Fig. 2 shews (from Ruysch) the true delineation of Malpighius's reticular and subcuticular body, as it appears by a microscope.

1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. iv. 175 The Sun-burn called Insolatio..seems to take Rise from the same external Cause, (viz.) long Continuance in the Sun, by which the subcuticular Humours being altered, appear as it were Brown or Tawny.

1735 W. Hillary Rational & Mechanical Ess. Small-Pox 43 More obstructions must be formed in the small Branches of the subcuticular Vessels.

1823 Q. Periscope Pract. Med. June in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Med. Sci. 4 185 I have not unfrequently known the worm die in its subcuticular abode.

1851 Fraser's Mag. 43 211/1 Nor will the observer find many species..where this subcuticular multipedous mode of going through the world is more visibly manifested than in the puff adders.

1929 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 6 532/1 Local anesthesia..cannot be too strongly deprecated, except in quite small superficial localized subcuticular infections.

1970 J. A. Kerr Appendicitis v. 33 Ligat's sign is positive when subcuticular hyperaesthesia is present in the right lower quadrant.

2010 Guardian 11 May (G2 section) 14/3 Continuous subcuticular stitches can be tied to keep them secure.

1841 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 6 379 This is a conclusion that must cause great alteration in our ideas of the subcuticular Fungi [infecting plants].

1886 W. E. Hoyle tr. R. Leuckart Parasites of Man 287 We usually regard the cuticle of animals as the excretion of an epithelial layer of cells, and we often find, lying below it, a tissue of more or less distinct cellular character. Such a subcuticular layer has often been sought for in the Cestodes.

1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) x. 272 In Melampsora..and Coleosporium the teliospores are crowded laterally into a subepidermal or subcuticular crust.

1961 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson & J. Sankey Land Invertebr. xi. 127 Limits of coxae of legs indicated by sub-cuticular sclerotised (hardened) bars of apodemes.

2007 Mycologia 99 628/1 Basifugal and centrifugal septation of conidia is discussed with reference..to some foliicolous anamorphs with subcuticular hyphae.