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rectally

rectally adverb: through the rectum.

Adverb

rectally (not comparable)

  1. Through the rectum.
    • The thermometer had to be inserted rectally.
    • “When you do it rectally you may still throw up, but there’s nothing to throw up here. It’s kind of like a point of no return once you put it in there that way.”2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    per rectum, PR

Synonyms of rectally

Origin of rectally

From rectal + -ly.

Questions about rectally

What does rectally mean?
Rectally means through the rectum.
What part of speech is rectally?
Rectally is an adverb.

Words near rectally in the dictionary

  1. rectal
  2. rectal sex
  3. rectal varicosities
  4. rectal varicosity
  5. rectalgia
  6. rectally
  7. rectals
  8. rectangle
  9. rectangled
  10. rectanglelike
  11. rectangles

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