Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the cheeks or the mouth cavity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the bucca or cheek.
- Pertaining to the sides of the mouth, or to the mouth or mouth-parts as a whole; oral; maxillary.
- A branch of the inferior maxillary nerve supplying the integument and mucous membrane of the cheek.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.
- adj. dentistry On the side facing the cheek.
- adj. medicine, of a drug Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or toward the cheek
- adj. lying within the mouth
- adj. oriented toward the inside of the cheek
Etymologies
- From Latin bucca (“cheek; mouth”) + -al. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin bucca, cheek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It usually involves just a little swab, what we call a buccal swab.”
“The pills I will take tomorrow arent swallowed, they are "buccal" which means you leave them in the side of your cheek until they dissolve. ewww... apparently they taste gross.”
“® Technology can be applied to the oral route of administration as well other delivery pathways, such as buccal, rectal, inhalation, intra-vaginal or transdermal.”
“Technology can be applied to the oral route of administration as well other delivery pathways, such as buccal, rectal, inhalation, intra-vaginal or transdermal.”
“(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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buccal’.
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Logolepsy
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Learned
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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looked up
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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miscellanea
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Science_Words
motility, sessility, histology, buccal, Glucuronidation, chelating, endogenic, endemic, epidemic, exogenic, uxine
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Driftwood & Turtles
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Tweets
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knitandpurl "This was a normal rite of passage then: from being rickety-gnashered to fully porcelained in one leap, to all that buccal sliding and clacking, to social embarrassment and the foaming glass on the bedside table."
From "The Past Conditional" by Julian Barnes
The New Yorker, Dec. 25, 2006 and Jan. 1, 2007, p 56 Dec 25, 2006