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  • adverb In a sublingual manner

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Examples

  • Gentile said, "Now instead of having to inject the allergy extract you can actually does orally or sublingually, which is under the tongue.

    WPXI.com - Local News 2010

  • Gentile said, "Now instead of having to inject the allergy extract you can actually does orally or sublingually, which is under the tongue.

    WPXI.com - Local News 2010

  • Gentile said, "Now instead of having to inject the allergy extract you can actually does orally or sublingually, which is under the tongue.

    WPXI.com - Local News 2010

  • Gentile said, "Now instead of having to inject the allergy extract you can actually does orally or sublingually, which is under the tongue.

    WPXI.com - Local News 2010

  • To bypass this absorption problem, you may take it sublingually under the tongue or have your doctor administer a B12 injection.

    The Chemistry of Calm M.D. Henry Emmons 2010

  • Well, I was in the level of PA acute B-12 deficiency last april and have been taking B-12 1000 mg sublingually every couple days.

    Questions asked, and fingers smelling of peanut Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Many physicians provide their patients on MAOIs with one or two 10-mg tablets of the calcium channel antagonist, nifedipine, and instruct them to take one sublingually for its alpha-adrenergic antagonistic effects immediately upon noticing any signs of acute hypertension.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • This is why and it's very important that I stress this that you ask your doctor before taking anything sublingually that wasn't "meant" to be.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

  • For these people, taking medication sublingually if possible is definitely an advantage.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

  • In addition to the speed, the medicine delivered sublingually is usually more potent, and (in general terms) needs less medication to do the job it's intended to do (you may have heard stories about people cutting pills in half, then taking them under the tongue, to produce the same effect as swallowing one pill).

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

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