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Definitions: Parenteral |
ParenteralAdjective1. (medicine) administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection). 2. (physiology) located outside the alimentary tract. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Not through the alimentary canal but rather by injection through some other route, as subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraorbital, intracapsular, intraspinal, intrasternal, intravenous, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Parenteral |
| English words defined with "parenteral": Calan, Cefobid, cefoperazone, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, Claforan ♦ Fortaz ♦ hepatitis C ♦ Isoptin ♦ parenterally, Primaxin ♦ Rocephin ♦ Tazicef, total parenteral nutrition ♦ verapamil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "parenteral": chrysiosis corneae, corneal chrysosis ♦ Drug Eruptions ♦ Energy Intake ♦ Fat Emulsions, Intravenous ♦ Infusions, Parenteral ♦ Limulus Test ♦ parenteral administration, Parenteral Nutrition, Parenteral Nutrition, Home, Parenteral Nutrition, Home Total, Parenteral Nutrition, Total ♦ Selenious Acid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Parenteral" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (parenteral), German (parenteral), Portuguese (parenteral), Romanian (parenteral). |
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Health | This process is called total parenteral nutrition. (references) | |
However, for mild cases of the disease, total parenteral nutrition offers no benefit. (references) | ||
Parenteral nutrition is used only when gastroparesis is severe and is not helped by other methods. (references) | ||
Business | Only one company, Servicios de Salud Integrales, offers parenteral feeding. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Parenteral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Parenteral" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.31% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "parenteral": parenteral administration ♦ Parenteral Nutrition ♦ total parenteral nutrition. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "parenteral": non-parenteral. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "parenteral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | è‚ å¤–. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | parenteral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | parenteraal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | parenteraalinen, suoliston ulkopuolinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | parentéral, parentéral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | parenteral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παÏεντεÏικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parenterale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비경구. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arenteralpay parenteral. (various references) parenteral. (various references) парентеральный. (various references) parenteral. (various references) parenteral administration (parenteral administration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "parenteral": parenterally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-l-n-p-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: palterer, panetela, parental, parlante, paternal, prenatal, prerenal, relearnt. | |
-3 letters: alerter, alterer, apteral, enteral, eternal, learner, narrate, partner, pearler, pearter, petrale, planate, plantar, planter, platane, pleater, preanal, prelate, realter, relater, relearn, repanel, replant, replate, taperer, teleran, terrane. | |
-4 letters: aerate, antler, antral, apneal, arpent, arrant, earlap, earner, elater, enrapt, entera, entrap, errant, errata, lanate, lateen, leaner, leaper, learnt, nearer, neater, palate, paleae, palter, parent, parral, parrel, partan, pelter, perter, petrel, planar, planer, planet, platan, platen, plater, prater, ranter, realer, reaper, reearn, relate, relent, rental, renter, repeal, repeat, repent, replan, retape, retear, retral, tarnal, tarpan, tearer, terrae, trapan, trepan. | |
-5 letters: alane, alant, alate, alert, altar, alter, anear, anele, antae, antra, antre, apart, apnea, apter, areae, areal, arena, arete, arpen, artal, artel, eaten, eater, elate, enate, enter, etape, laree, laten, later, leant, leapt, learn, leper, lepta, natal, paean, palea, paler, palet, panel, parae, parer, parle, paten, pater, pearl, peart, penal, perea, petal, peter, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, prate, preen, ranee, raper, ratal, ratan, ratel, rater, reata, relet, renal, rente, repel, reran, talar, taler, taper, tarre, telae, tepal, terne, terra, treen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-l-n-p-r-r-t" | |
+2 letters: parenterally. | |
+3 letters: preternatural. | |
+4 letters: interplanetary, preoperational, proletarianise, proletarianize. | |
+5 letters: intraperitoneal, intrapreneurial, preternaturally, proletarianised, proletarianises, proletarianized, proletarianizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 65 6E 74 65 72 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. . -. - . .-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r e n t e r a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0065 006E 0074 0065 0072 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678471808671846778 |
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