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parenteral
(redirected from parenteral alimentation)

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par·en·ter·al  (p-rntr-l)
adj.
1. Physiology Located outside the alimentary canal.
2. Medicine Taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection.

par·enter·al·ly adv.
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Adj.1.parenteral - administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection)
medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
2.parenteral - located outside the alimentary tract
physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms

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