a. Also 7 -ious. [f. mod. or med.L. cutāne-us (f. cut-is the skin) + -OUS. Cf. F. cutané (1721 in Hatzf.).] Of, pertaining to, or affecting, the cutis or skin.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, VIII. 110. The cutaneous distribution of nerues.
1683. Robinson, in Ray’s Corr. (1848), 137. In cutaneous diseases.
1744. Berkeley, Siris, § 4. Cutaneous eruptions and ulcers.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., v. 115. These reptiles possess great powers of cutaneous absorption.
b. fig. = External, superficial.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 455. All the distinctions of this little life Are quite cutaneous, foreign to the man.
1853. Reade, Chr. Johnstone, i. (1853), 15. Cutaneous disorders, such as love.
