English Explanatory Dictionary

per vaginam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.

Word forms

per vaginam per vagina

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

PV vaginally
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