parenterally

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   by parenteral means

   “the drug is intended to be administered parenterally”

Questions about parenterally

What does parenterally mean?

parenterally means "by parenteral means".

How many syllables are in parenterally?

parenterally has 5 syllables and divides as pa-ren-te-ral-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is parenterally a common word?

parenterally 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.