What is "subdermal"

Usage examples of "subdermal".

Bone and subdermal plating crushed inward, cutting into the vulnerable brain tissue beneath.

Only the tough subdermal cartilage sheath had kept the epidermis from dissolving from the inside out, but that was beginning to liquefy, too.

The third needle, backed with considerable force, penetrated a subdermal layer of resistance and the blood was drawn.

Nor was it until that precise instant that he fully apprehended where he stood, feeling with redoubled intensity an awareness of Mystery, the disorientation and flagging spirits that derived from a propinquity with the country of death, which lay everywhere, attached to the skin of life like a dark subdermal layer and, in places such as this, showed in patches through the flimsy cover of the living world.

Borderline malnutrition, osteoarthritis, chronic subdermal lesions, and a tumor that would have metastasized and killed him within a few years.

This meant determining which of the forty electrodes would stop an epileptic seizure, and locking in the appropriate switches on the subdermal computer.

Their skulls were thickened with massive layers of hormonally induced bone growth, as a form of subdermal safety helmet suitable for mining work, extending nearly to the width of their shoulders.