What's the difference between hypodermic and subcutaneous?

Hypodermic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
  • (2) DMH4P and the tryptophane have an inhibitrice influence on the melanisation, probably by the increase of the synthesis or the release of serotonin, in the hypoderm.
  • (3) The objective of this study was to investigate the biological substrate of radioactive pathways of migration of hypodermically injected 99mTc into points of low electrical resistance.
  • (4) No specific isolation precautions were used other than separate collection of hypodermic needles.
  • (5) The device can be used to locate a hypodermic needle at a distance of 50-90 mm, a sewing needle at 60-122 mm, a routine 7.62-mm bullet at 90 mm and a 5.6-mm bullet at 105 mm.
  • (6) Other routes of transmission are by contaminated hypodermic needles, prenatal infection, and infected blood transfusions.
  • (7) During the feeding period hypodermal cells greatly increase in volume and the elements of granular endoplasmic reticulum and metachondria increase in number.
  • (8) A hypodermic needle is inserted into the specimen through the abnormality immediately following specimen radiography, removing the need to radiograph individual tissue slices.
  • (9) Vibrio vulnificus protease enhanced hypodermic vascular permeability when injected into the dorsal skin of a guinea pig.
  • (10) A mercury-in-glass manometer (sphygmomanometer) is used to measure the gas pressure proximal to a flow restrictor (consisting of a hypodermic needle hub) and it is this pressure head which, for a given gas, dictates the flow produced.
  • (11) The catheter balloons were punctured by pricking with a hypodermic needle.
  • (12) The extreme morphological complexity of the Dina spermatozoon is related to the peculiar hypodermal fertilization which characterizes the erpobdellid family.
  • (13) To maintain the level of analgesia, the oral use of morphine at four-hour internals is required, or continuous hypodermic administration by means of a syringe driver is quite ideal.
  • (14) Three morphologically distinct rickettsial forms were observed in individual hypodermal cells: (i) typical growth forms with a finely reticulated cytoplasmic matrix and distinct ribosomes; (ii) atypical forms with lightly to densely staining cytoplasm and a coagulated appearance in which ribosomes cannot be distinguished from the matrix; and (iii) forms with crystalline bodies that have a striated to beaded lattice structure and, at times, a fibrillar body in the cytoplasm as well.
  • (15) The effects of mutations in these four genes on dauer larva formation have revealed that they regulate two different processes of dauer larva formation: (1) a decision specifying the larval stage at which dauer larva development initiates, and (2) the specialized differentiation of hypodermal cells during dauer larva morphogenesis.
  • (16) This presented case is a peculiar one on the view-point of occurrence in the central nervous system among the familial hypodermic manifestation on the extremities and coexistence of retinal vascular anomaly.
  • (17) Aside from lymphedema, venous insufficiency, hypodermitis and leg ulcers may also benefit from pressure-therapy.
  • (18) The hypodermis cuticle prepared in this manner incorporated radiolabeled amino acids into cuticular and hypodermal proteins; incorporation was inhibited by protein synthesis inhibitors.
  • (19) Among these, the magnetic resonance examination (data referred to a 0.5 T apparatus) allowed a precise morphological differentiation of the penile covering tissues, such as outer skin, dartos tunica and hypodermal connective; the vascular characterization of cavernous tissue, belonging to corpora cavernosa and spongiosum urethrae, of deep arteries and superficial dorsal vein(s); the resolution of the albuginea and the identification of the urethral lumen.
  • (20) First instar larvae X-rayed in from 0 to 100% oxygen demonstrated the existence of an oxygen effect for somatic recombination in the cells which form the abdominal hypoderm.

Subcutaneous


Definition:

  • (a.) Situated under the skin; hypodermic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
  • (3) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
  • (4) Subcutaneous adipose tissue extracellular glucose was investigated in vivo in man with a microdialysis technique.
  • (5) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
  • (6) The results obtained on fat cell membranes from abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue demonstrated the following.
  • (7) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
  • (8) Accordingly, we repleted vitamin D-depleted rats with subcutaneous injections of 2600, 520, and 130 pmoles of cholecalciferol (D3), 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D3), and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)2D3), respectively, for up to 3 weeks.
  • (9) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
  • (10) A case of multiple, subcutaneous, neutrophilic abscesses due to T. rubrum in an immunosuppressed renal allograft recipient is described.
  • (11) The DTH responses were induced by subcutaneous injection of allogeneic epidermal cells (ECs) and were assayed by footpad swelling.
  • (12) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (13) Prolonged beta-adrenergic stimulation obtained by subcutaneous injection of isoproterenol in unanesthetized, unrestrained rats elicited ventricular fibrillation in approximately 80% of animals at 10-12 months of age.
  • (14) There is no previous report of a subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma developing in radiation dermatitis.
  • (15) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.
  • (16) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
  • (17) Perinephric rabbit fat was divided into small particles with scissors and razor blades and then injected subcutaneously into the donor rabbit.
  • (18) They were given to volunteers by the subcutaneous route with and without the addition of Al (OH)3 as adjuvant.
  • (19) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
  • (20) This study reports on biological response modification induced by prolonged continuous subcutaneous (s.c.) infusion of recombinant interferon-gamma (rIFN-gamma) with particular attention to changes of soluble CD14.

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