buccal

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The advantage over gold for cervical, buccal, and lingual walls is the perfect ease with which it is adapted, and it can be burnished so as to be absolutely impervious to moisture.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the cheeks or the mouth cavity.

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  • I find him by his smell and his sounds--the shifting of flesh against a metal that barely contains him, the rasp of scales wider than my face against the alloy, the whisper of nutrients moving through kilometers of tubes from distant hydroponic tanks to the buccal orifices of his body, and the whisper of waste through other tubing. —  Omni: February 1994
  • The Eligen (r) Technology can be applied to oral administration or other routes of administration other than oral, such as buccal, rectal, inhalational, intra-vaginal or transdermal. —  News
  • The Eligen (r) Technology can be applied to the oral route of administration as well other delivery pathways, such as buccal, rectal, inhalation, intra-vaginal or transdermal. —  News
  • The Eligen (r) Technology can be applied to the oral route of administration as well as other delivery pathways, such as buccal, rectal, inhalation, intra-vaginal or transdermal. —  News
  • Intravail® has also been successfully applied to buccal, oral, and rectal administration of both small molecule and peptidic drugs. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
 

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/ˈbəkəl/
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