sublingual
UK/sʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
sublingual adjective: administered through placement under the tongue.
Adjective
sublingual (not comparable)
- Administered through placement under the tongue.
- Situated beneath the tongue.
- Synonyms:
- subglossal
- Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland.
Noun
sublingual (plural sublinguals)
sublingual meaning in Tamil and Tagalog
sublingual in Tamil
- அடிநாக்கின் கீழான, நாக்கடிச்சிரை, நாக்கீழள்ள, நாக்குஅடி, நாவடி
sublingual in Tagalog
- administered by placement beneath the tongue
- pang-ilalim-dila
Synonyms of sublingual
Forms of sublingual
| plural | sublinguals |
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Origin of sublingual
Borrowed from New Latin sublinguālis, from sub- (“under, below, beneath”) + linguālis (“relating to the tongue”); equivalent to sub- + lingual.
Words formed from sublingual
- sublingual artery
- sublingual caruncle
- sublingual duct
- sublingual gland
- sublingual immunotherapy
- sublingually
- sublingual nerve
- sublingual nucleus
Phrases with sublingual
Words that rhyme with sublingual
- translingual
- bilingual
- buccolingual
- decalingual
- lingual
- nonalingual
- octolingual
- pentalingual
- quadrilingual
- ambilingual
- dentilingual
- heptalingual
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- hexalingual
- labiolingual
- multilingual
- polylingual
- prelingual
- quinquelingual
- sesquilingual
- tetralingual
- trilingual
- alveololingual
- anterolingual
- apicolingual
- audiolingual
- axiolingual
- brevilingual
- cervicolingual
- colingual
- collingual
- crosslingual
- distolingual
- dorsolingual
- equilingual
- exolingual
- faciolingual
- fissilingual
- gingivolingual
- heterolingual
- homolingual
- hyolingual
- interlingual
- intralingual
- laterolingual
- matrilingual
- mediolingual
- mesiolingual
- mesolingual
- metrolingual
- midlingual
- monolingual
- omnilingual
- panlingual
- paralingual
- perilingual
- plurilingual
- posterolingual
- postlingual
- protolingual
- retrolingual
Questions about sublingual
- What does sublingual mean?
- Sublingual means administered through placement under the tongue.
- What is sublingual in Tamil?
- Sublingual in Tamil is அடிநாக்கின் கீழான, நாக்கடிச்சிரை, நாக்கீழள்ள. See Sublingual meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sublingual?
- Sublingual can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce sublingual?
- Sublingual is pronounced /sʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/ (UK).
Words near sublingual in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sublingual (page history and authors); sublingual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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