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per vaginam

per vaginam adverb: through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.

Adverb

per vaginam (not comparable)

  1. Through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.
    Synonyms:
    PV, vaginally

Synonyms of per vaginam

Forms of per vaginam

alternative formper vagina

Origin of per vaginam

Naturalized into medical English from neoclassical use of Latin in the professions. Exists in loanword form (retaining the Latin inflection, -am) and also in a further naturalized form with reanalysis in English morphology, per vagina = per + vagina, in parallel with other per + [English noun] constructions, such as per instructions or per statute.

Questions about per vaginam

What does per vaginam mean?
Per vaginam means through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.
What part of speech is per vaginam?
Per vaginam is an adverb.

Words near per vaginam in the dictionary

  1. per say
  2. per se
  3. per stirpes
  4. per usual
  5. per vagina
  6. per vaginam
  7. per'lous
  8. per-
  9. per-cent
  10. per-centage
  11. per-centages

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