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subdermal

adjective, noun

subdermal is an adjective meaning “just below the skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-D-E-R-M-A-L, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does subdermal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    just below the skin

noun

  1. 1

    an object implanted just below the skin

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of subdermal

  • sub-dermal
  • subdermals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is subdermal?

Subdermal appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does subdermal come from?

From sub- + dermal.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).