per vaginam
adverb
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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adv
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.
- Through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.