subcutaneously

1. 1.

   below the skin

   “inject subcutaneously”

Questions about subcutaneously

What does subcutaneously mean?

subcutaneously means "below the skin".

How many syllables are in subcutaneously?

subcutaneously has 6 syllables: sub-cu-ta-ne-ou-sly. The stress falls on "ne".

Is subcutaneously a common word?

subcutaneously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.