Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
💊 By the mouth 🗣️ Through the mouth
peroral

peroral

7.3
Taken through the mouth, for example a medicine you swallow
  • adjective
  • /ˌpɜːrˈɔːrəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : peroral
  • For the study, participants were given a peroral dose of the new drug to evaluate its effects.

Examples

  • Because the lesion was reported as benign, we were able to easily excise it via a peroral route.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Peroral excision of the mass was performed under general anesthesia.

    Academic text (1998)

  • An Abraham cannula from a peroral approach was used to palpate the endolarynx to test for adequate depth of anesthesia.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The doctor advised a peroral medication to treat the infection more effectively.

  • She preferred the peroral method for delivering the vaccine rather than injection.

Synonyms

orally
vsperoral
  • Specialized
4 3.2

By mouth when taking medicine

emphasizes being administered or performed by mouth in medical procedures

Surface Forms

peroral positive

Morphology

peroral = oral (semi-transparent) = per + oral

Formally built from 'per-' (through) + 'oral', but the prefix meaning 'through' is not highly familiar to average learners, so the relation to 'oral' is guessable but not fully obvious.

Etymology

Peroral comes from the parts per- 'through' and oral 'mouth', so a peroral medicine is one you take 'through the mouth', such as a pill or a syrup.