Parenteral

Word PARENTERAL
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Parenteral"

What do we mean by parenteral?

Located outside the digestive tract. adjective

Taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection. adjective

Administered by some means other than oral intake, particularly intravenously or by injection. adjective

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

Located outside the alimentary tract adjective

Administered by some means that avoids the gastrointestinal tract, particularly intravenously or by injection

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The word "parenteral" in example sentences

James Hoffman, St. Jude's medication safety officer, said many patients having organ transplants at the hospital are on nutrition supplements, known as parenteral nutrition, while they recover from surgery. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2011)

This will include enteral and parenteral nutrition support; acid-base balance; nutrition care specific to patient diagnosis, including but not limited to: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clinical and educational programs include: general gastrointestinal diagnostic service, inflammatory bowel disease, acute and chronic liver disease, liver transplantation, motility disorders diagnosis and management, home total parenteral and enteral nutrition, feeding and dysphasia disorders, hyperlipidemias and nutrition support service and related nutrition programs ❋ Unknown (2010)

The inpatient program is organized through the hospital-wide Nutrition Support Service, where the fellow supervises and consults in the care of children requiring extensive nutritional status assessment and parenteral or nutritional support. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Conventional therapy for hypertensive crisis should be employed. 5 A rapid short-acting parenteral alpha-adrenergic blocker, such as phentolamine, or vasodilators, such as nitroprusside, are recommended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nutrition — The fellow will spend a one month rotation on the Nutrition service and will participate in various nutrition clinics (cystic fibrosis, renal disease, weight management (obesity), home total parenteral nutrition, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problems have affected mostly older sterile, injected parenteral drugs that are generic and typically sold at low prices for slim profit margins. ❋ Scott Gottlieb (2011)

The treatment for its deadly sting is removal of tentacles with vinegar, compression bandages, parenteral narcotics for severe pain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You really know how to put the phun in peripheral parenteral nutrition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In several comparative, well designed studies, oral and parenteral tramadol effectively relieved moderate to severe postoperative pain associated with surgery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite having gone through a series of invasive procedures, baffled doctors determined that Ms. Bailey could only survive through the use of TNP, or total parenteral nutrition ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm an RD and I manage a bunch of home parenteral nutrition patients including writing all of the orders and dealing with the home infusion pharmacists almost daily. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2008)

The parenteral heat-phenol-inactivated vaccine (manufactured by Wyeth-Ayerst) has been discontinued. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I use the papoose sometimes, but not often--and always with parenteral permission. ❋ Dr. Dean Brandon (2007)

There are times and/or parenteral preference where you simply would choose not use the papoose, especially if it simply upsets the parent too much. ❋ Dr. Dean Brandon (2007)

A recent issue of the the New York Times reveals that some physician groups have been receiving rebates from drug manufacturers for parenteral recombinant erythropoetin. ❋ James Gaulte (2007)

The deaths that have been reported in the past have been from intravenous use or parenteral use directly into the blood -- skin -- beneath the skin, the famous case in 1976 in Bulgaria. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Certain groups of people are at particular risk for L-carnitine deficiency, including kidney failure patients on hemodialysis, patients with liver failure, and patients receiving total parenteral IV nutrition. ❋ Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier (2000)

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