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parenteral
(redirected from parenteral therapy)

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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.
parenteral [pæˈrɛntərəl]
adj Med
1. (Medicine) (esp of the route by which a drug is administered) by means other than through the digestive tract, esp by injection
2. (Medicine) designating a drug to be injected
[from para-1 + entero- + -al1]
parenterally  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
Translations
parenteral [pæˈrentərəl] ADJ → parenteral
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The presence of repeated vomiting, even without other symptoms, would be an indication that hospital admission for parenteral therapy is necessary.
Severe malaria: a case of too little too late by Mehta, U. / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Three of those deaths were due to uncontrolled SA infection (2 of those 3 had received less than 4 weeks of parenteral therapy for their infection), whereas the other 4 deaths were secondary to progression of underlying diseases (all had received more than 4 weeks of parenteral therapy).
Hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in ... by Peacock, James E. / Southern Medical Journal
Parenteral therapy is sometimes necessary for those very few patients who do not improve with oral and topical antimicrobial therapy and aggressive local care.
Post-tympanostomy tube otorrhea by Myer III, Charles M. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
 
 
 
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