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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parenteral /pəˈrɛnt(ə)r(ə)l/

▶adjective Medicine (chiefly of nutrition) involving another part of the body than the mouth and alimentary canal. Often contrasted with enteral.

– derivatives
parenterally adverb.

– origin early 20th cent.: from para-1 + Gk enteron ‘intestine’ + -al.

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