parenteral

1. 1.

   administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection)

   medicine

2. 2.

   located outside the alimentary tract

   physiology

Questions about parenteral

What does parenteral mean?

parenteral means "administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parenteral?

parenteral has 4 syllables: pa-ren-te-ral. The stress falls on "ren".

Is parenteral a common word?

parenteral 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.