parenteral

[ pa-ren-ter-uhl ]

adjectiveAnatomy, Medicine/Medical, Physiology.
  1. taken into the body in a manner other than through the digestive canal.

  2. not within the intestine; not intestinal.

Origin of parenteral

1
First recorded in 1905–10; par- + enter- + -al1

Other words from parenteral

  • par·en·ter·al·ly, adverb

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How to use parenteral in a sentence

  • With this idea Ingier added thyroid, hypophysis, thymus and parathyroid to the food of guinea-pigs, or gave it parenterally.

    Scurvy Past and Present | Alfred Fabian Hess

British Dictionary definitions for parenteral

parenteral

/ (pæˈrɛntərəl) /


adjectivemed
  1. (esp of the route by which a drug is administered) by means other than through the digestive tract, esp by injection

  2. designating a drug to be injected

Origin of parenteral

1
C20: from para- 1 + entero- + -al 1

Derived forms of parenteral

  • parenterally, adverb

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