sublingual
/sʌbˈlɪŋɡw(ə)l
/adjective Anatomy & Medicine
1Situated or applied under the tongue.Oral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, epidural, intrathecal, sublingual, and rectal are all viable routes of morphine administration....
- Others have asked students to give specific practical advice to a patient receiving, say, sublingual glyceryl trinitrate for angina or an inhaler for asthma.
- Nicotine replacement is available as chewing gum, transdermal patch, nasal spray, inhaler, sublingual tablet, and lozenge.
1.1Denoting a pair of small salivary glands beneath the tongue.Grossly, the cut surface revealed a unilocular cystic lesion, which measured 1.5 x 1.2 cm and which was enclosed within the sublingual major salivary gland....
- The male produces a long, gelatinous strand of condensed saliva from the sublingual salivary glands, which is then wound into a half-cup nest, bonded to a vertical surface.
- The facial artery may replace the lingual artery and supply the sublingual gland.
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sublingually
- By administering the spray sublingually, the mucous membrane absorbs the solution directly into the bloodstream, avoiding degradation from the gastrointestinal tract and liver.
- Nitrates and calcium channel blocking drugs can be tried taken sublingually for episodes of pain or orally and regularly as a prophylactic.
- Buprenorphine was provided in tablet form, which was administered sublingually.
- day haul
- day-hole
- day hospital
- day hour
- day house
- day in, day out
- day job
- day-laboring
- day labourer
- day-labouring
- day length
- daylength-neutral
- dayless
- day letter
- Day-Lewis, C.
- Day-Lewis, Sir Daniel
- daylight
- daylight bulb
- daylighted
- daylight factor
- daylight gate
- daylighting
- daylight-loading
- daylight robbery
- daylight saving