Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anatomy An area of skin innervated by sensory fibers from a single spinal nerve.
- noun Medicine An instrument used in cutting thin slices of the skin, as for skin grafts.
- noun Embryology The part of a mesodermal somite from which the dermis develops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A knife with a very fine blade, used for removing certain skin- blemishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument usedsurgically to remove a thinslice ofskin forgrafting - noun An area of skin which is
innervated by afferent nerve fibers coming to a single posterior spinal root - noun The cutis plate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Preceded by severe neuralgic pain, the eruption is vesicular on an erythematous base and is almost invariably unilateral, occupying the dermatome of a peripheral nerve.
Chapter 9 1993
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The cells of the segment become differentiated into three groups, which form respectively the cutis-plate or dermatome, the muscle-plate or myotome, and the sclerotome (Fig. 64).
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Association, report the increase in risk for stroke within a year of a shingles infection ranged from just over 30%, to more than 300%, depending on the stroke type or dermatome affected.
latimes.com - News 2011
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Conduction velocities were calculated by stimulating two body areas situated in the same dermatome (S1), one distal on the dorsum of the foot and one proximal at the external lateral face of the superior third part of the leg.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010
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Six sites were investigated in this subject (front, hand, leg, foot) among which two belonged to the same dermatome on the lower limb (S1).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010
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Both belong to the territory of the common peroneal nerve (dermatome S1).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010
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For patients with PHN, we examined the contralateral dermatome.
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For patients with LBP, we examined a reference area in the midline of the back above the painful area (usually around T12), and if the patient had leg pain, the corresponding dermatome of the opposite leg.
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We considered the test result positive when pain projecting into a dermatome was reproduced by raising the affected leg a second time extended at the knee
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As was said before, I can almost disregard any physical exam that was clearly generated by "checking boxes" - do you really think I believe you did two point fine touch sensory discrimination across every dermatome in that 7 year old you saw for an ear infection?
Bits 2009
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