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DERMATOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dermatome mean? 

DERMATOME (noun)
  The noun DERMATOME has 1 sense:

1. a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skinplay

  Familiarity information: DERMATOME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DERMATOME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dermatome" is a kind of...):

surgical instrument (a medical instrument used in surgery)


 Context examples 


Clinical signs include sudden onset of radicular pain localizable to a dermatome with overlying cutaneous vascular lesions.

(Cobb Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)



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