WordNet
n. a medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream [syn: transdermal patch]
Usage examples of "skin patch".
He shuffled along, ignoring his nakedness and the nakedness of those on every side of him, resisting the temptation to scratch at the skin patch beneath his left ear.
But she wasn't completely sure, because since she'd been in school she'd been getting her vitamins in a skin patch, and maybe old people had a different kind of vitamins.
A nurse was busy attaching some kind of skin patch to her wrist, probably an antishock treatment.
The pain of another false-skin patch being moved jolted me out of it.
She noticed his burn wound was covered over by a pink new skin patch.
Something inside her, gut instinct born of experience, told her that this man, too, wore a skin patch that hid his Talent brand, and that underneath it would be not the red of an empath or the green of the telepath or even the white of the telekinetic, but rather the blue diamond of that most feared Talent, and justly so, the hypno.
When she got married she probably had her reproductive system turned back on and limited it with a skin patch for the duration of our so-called last job together.