intramuscular

1. 1.

   within a muscle

   “an intramuscular injection”

Questions about intramuscular

What does intramuscular mean?

intramuscular means "within a muscle".

How many syllables are in intramuscular?

intramuscular has 5 syllables: in-tra-mu-scu-lar. The stress falls on "mu".

Is intramuscular a common word?

intramuscular is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.