Definition of parenteral in English:
parenteral
adjective pəˈrɛnt(ə)r(ə)lpəˈrɛn(t)ərəl
Medicine Administered or occurring elsewhere in the body than the mouth and alimentary canal.
Often contrasted with enteral
Example sentencesExamples
- Central venous catheters, often used to deliver parenteral nutrition to preterm infants, can act as a nidus for infection.
- The available clinical evidence leans heavily on parenteral therapy of inpatients with pelvic inflammatory disease.
- This is particularly true for DNA vaccines, combination vaccines, vectored vaccines, and vaccines administered in a parenteral depot fashion.
- Total parenteral nutrition was administered preoperatively, and complications were monitored.
- In a survey of the field nine years ago I was optimistic and foolhardy enough to believe that soon many of the parenteral vaccines would be administered via alternative routes.
Derivatives
adverb
Medicine They were randomised to two postoperative isoenergetic and isoprotein nutritional regimens given enterally or parenterally; the results have just been reported.
Example sentencesExamples
- The drug may be given orally, parenterally (intramuscular, intravenous), or rectally in addition to epidurally and intrathecally.
- Anyone without achlorhydria secretes hydrogen ions from gastric mucosa whether fed orally, by a nasogastric tube, or parenterally.
- High dose systemic corticosteroids should be administered promptly by mouth if there is no concern regarding retention, and parenterally if the patient is obtunded or vomiting.
- Three weeks of antibiotic therapy, with at least the first week of therapy being administered parenterally, is required in the treatment of children with orbital cellulitis.
Origin
Early 20th century: from para-1 'beside' + Greek enteron 'intestine' + -al.
Definition of parenteral in US English:
parenteral
adjectivepəˈrɛn(t)ərəlpəˈren(t)ərəl
Medicine Administered or occurring elsewhere in the body than the mouth and alimentary canal.
Often contrasted with enteral
Example sentencesExamples
- This is particularly true for DNA vaccines, combination vaccines, vectored vaccines, and vaccines administered in a parenteral depot fashion.
- Total parenteral nutrition was administered preoperatively, and complications were monitored.
- The available clinical evidence leans heavily on parenteral therapy of inpatients with pelvic inflammatory disease.
- In a survey of the field nine years ago I was optimistic and foolhardy enough to believe that soon many of the parenteral vaccines would be administered via alternative routes.
- Central venous catheters, often used to deliver parenteral nutrition to preterm infants, can act as a nidus for infection.
Origin
Early 20th century: from para- ‘beside’ + Greek enteron ‘intestine’ + -al.