a medicine that is administered intravenously or by injection; most vaccines can be administered subcutaneously (to the fatty layer immediately below the skin) or intramuscularly — but not intravenously.
Introduction of a substance (such as a drug or nutrient) into the body through any route other than by mouth or suppository. Parenteral injections can be intravenous (into a vein), subcutaneous (beneath the skin), or intramuscular (within a muscle).
Method of administering medicine or nutrition through a means other than by the mouth. Intravenous (into the vein), intramuscular (into the muscle), and intradermal (into the skin) administration are all parenteral.
(par EN ter al): Drug administered by injection.
Injection or administration by a route other than the alimentary tract.
By injection (i.e., not by the oral route); injectable.
administered by any other route, other than by mouth ( per os). Applied, for example, to the introduction of drugs by injection.
situated or occurring outside the intestines; referring to introduction of substances into the body other than by way of the intestines, such as intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, or intraspinal
Injected or for injection subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or intravenously.
par·en·ter·al (pà-rèn¹ter-el) adjective Physiology. Located outside the alimentary canal. Medicine. Taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection. — par·en¹ter·al·ly adverb
Administration of fluids intravenously. (See also: hyperalimentation and enteral nutrition.
administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection)
Administration of food or drugs intravenously into the blood bypassing the GI system.
Not through the alimentary canal but rather by injection through some other route, as subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraorbital, intracapsular, intraspinal, intrasternal, intravenous, etc.
given by injection, bypassing the enteral (gastrointestinal) tract.
drug administration occurring outside the alimentary tract; injected into the body through some route other than the alimentary canal (e.g., intramuscularly)
Taken into the body in a way other than the digestive tract, usually injected in a muscle or vein.
Entering the body not by the alimentary tract but rather by another means (such as the subcutaneous , the intramuscular , or often the intravenous route). See the entire definition of Parenteral
Brought into the body in some other way than the digestive tract, as by subcutaneous or intravenous injection.
entry into the body via the intravenous or intramuscular routes.
Administered intravenously or by injection. Vaccines may be administered by injection into the fatty layer immediately below the skin (subcutaneous), or into the muscle (intramuscular). Medications, but not vaccines, can also be administered into a vein (intravenous).
administration of a treatment by one of the following routes - subcutaneous, intramuscular, intrasternal intravenous
administration by intravenous, intramuscular or subcutaneous injection
any route of administration of a substance other than via the digestive tract (intravenous, subcutaneous, ...).
by some means other than the digestive tract; i.e. intravascular or intramuscular injection etc.
A route other than in or through the digestive system. For example, parenteral can pertain to blood being drawn from a vein in the arm or introduced into that vein via a transfusion (intravenous), or to injection of medications or vaccines through the skin (subcutaneous) or into muscle (intramuscular).
Means "Into the Body" Usually refers to any type of injectable medication.
