medicine that can be taken by eating, not injecting

English translation: oral medication

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English term or phrase:medicine that can be taken by eating, not injecting
Selected answer:oral medication
Entered by: Steffen Walter

10:50 Oct 17, 2002
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals
English term or phrase: medicine that can be taken by eating, not injecting
I want an adj. in English that means " a kind of medicine that can be used by eating, not injecting"
Thanks.
D.S.
oral
Explanation:
by mouth

medicine/medication to be administered orally

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jerrie
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Local time: 13:47
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3 +7oral
jerrie
5 +2Per os
John Kinory (X)
5peroral
Steffen Walter
5orally
Kemal Mustajbegovic


  

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Per os


Explanation:
The common medical term

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Note added at 2002-10-17 10:52:32 (GMT)
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Method of administration: per os

(as against:

i.v. - intravenous
i.m. - intramuscular
sc - subcutaneous)

John Kinory (X)
Local time: 13:47

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agree  Arthur Borges: The standard medical term indeed.
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agree  AAAmedical
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
oral


Explanation:
by mouth

medicine/medication to be administered orally



jerrie
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agree  Cilian O'Tuama
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agree  wrtransco
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agree  airmailrpl: oral medication
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  -> Thanks...this is the term I'm most familiar with (not a med. tech!)

agree  Jennie Sherrick, MA
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agree  luskie: (per os. is quite correct but very 'technical', and as usual we don't have any clues as for the context...)
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agree  Paul Svensson
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
peroral


Explanation:
...the other possibility to provide an adjective (a medicine is administered perorally, i.e. by eating/swallowing)

HTH
Steffen

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Note added at 2002-10-17 10:58:49 (GMT)
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cf. http://www.astrazeneca.co.uk/downloads/Imdur60mgtablets(9457...

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Note added at 2002-10-17 11:00:12 (GMT)
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Jerrie is of course right with \"oral\", \"peroral\" just sounds a wee bit more \"medical/technical\".

Steffen Walter
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1 day 4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
orally


Explanation:
Orally administered drugs.

"Per os" is Latin used by physicians but common expression is as given.

Adj. "orally"

Regards!

Kemal Mustajbegovic
Local time: 21:47
Native speaker of: Croatian
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