Most are administered orally ; however, they can also be given intravenously, intramuscularly or rectally.

Benzodiazepines are usually administered orally ; however, very occasionally lorazepam or diazepam may be given intravenously for the treatment of panic attacks.

Most chemotherapy is delivered intravenously, although a number of agents can be administered orally ( e. g., melphalan, busulfan, capecitabine ).

DDT has on rare occasions been administered orally as a treatment for barbiturate poisoning.

However, because of morphine's low oral bioavailability, there is a 1: 1 correspondence between orally administered morphine and orally administered hydrocodone.

Lethal dosage often varies depending on the method of administration ; for instance, many substances are less toxic when administered orally than when intravenously administered.

Methadone is almost as effective when administered orally as by injection.

As such, nicotinamide has not been shown to produce the flushing, itching, and burning sensations of the skin as is commonly seen when large doses of nicotinic acid are administered orally.

Among the older postmenopausal women studied as part of the Women's Health Initiative ( WHI ), an orally administered conjugated equine estrogen supplement was found to be associated with an increased risk of dangerous blood clotting.

In particular, estrogen applied topically may have a different spectrum of side-effects than when administered orally, and transdermal estrogens do not affect clotting as they are absorbed directly into the systemic circulation, avoiding first-pass metabolism in the liver.

Scopolamine can be administered orally, subcutaneously, opthalmically and intravenously, as well as via a transdermal patch.

Orally administered estrogen therapy also increases sex hormone binding globulin ( SHBG ) to a greater extent than non orally administered estrogens.

In the experiment, researchers from Harper Hospital in Detroit orally administered iodine-131 to 65 premature and full-term infants who weighed from.

STI571 ’ s efficacy was tested in 83 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, who were administered the dose orally during the chronic phase of their ailment.

A tablet can be formulated to deliver an accurate dosage to a specific site ; it is usually taken orally, but can be administered sublingually, buccally, rectally or intravaginally.

* As a bowel stimulant, not unlike a laxative – the main difference being that laxatives are commonly thought of as orally administered while enemas are administered directly into the rectum, and thereafter, into the colon.

For other patients, orally administered pseudoephedrine may be effective, pseudoephedrine being an alpha-agonist, agent that exert a constriction effect on smooth muscle of corpora cavernosum, that in turn facilitate venous outflow.

In priapism, it was suggested to be administered orally.

While E2 is readily absorbed when taken orally, it is also quickly inactivated by the liver.

Augustus modified the Persian system, as Suetonius notes, because a courier who travels the whole distance could be interrogated by the emperor upon arrival, in order to receive additional information orally.

Many proteins are degraded if administered orally and most often cannot cross the cell membranes.

Or the cells can be inflated " orally " that is by blowing into a flexible tube with a one-way valve to seal the air in the cell ).

: Every time you take vaccine, take it Aura Lea ( pun on " orally ")

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

While paracetamol is usually taken orally or rectally, an intravenous preparation introduced in 2002 has been shown to improve pain relief and reduce opioid consumption in the perioperative setting.

For example, a one-time dose of fluconazole ( 150-mg tablet taken orally ) has been reported as being 90 % effective in treating a vaginal yeast infection.

Beruryah ( her name is a standard Jewish female name meaning ' the clarity of God ') is a Tannah mentioned by name in the Talmud, who has a female name, has orally been transmitted as a female, and is referred to in the text using the nekava ( feminine Hebrew and Aramaic ) adjectives and adverbs.

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.

Linguistic study has led to the conjecture that initially the complete poem was transmitted orally, then in a lost manuscript in the East Saxon dialect and now survives as a fragment in the West Saxon form, possibly that of a scribe active at the Monastery of Worcester

* Dederick Lee, who led Clarksville to back to back championships in the Class 4A boys state basketball title last year ( 2011 ) and this year ( 2012 ), has orally committed to play for coach Mike Anderson and the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.

Scholarly consensus has long accepted that the Song of Roland differed in its presentation depending on oral or textual transmission ; namely, although a number of different versions of the song containing varying material and episodes would have been performed orally, the transmission to manuscript resulted in greater cohesiveness across versions.

Originally all alliterative poetry was composed and transmitted orally, and much has been lost through time since it went unrecorded.

The Swedish bagpipes ( säckpipa ) has been part of a long-running folk tradition, passed down orally until the death of Gudmunds Nils Larsson in 1949.

Clinical example: Diazepam has long been a drug of choice for status epilepticus ; its high lipid solubility means it gets absorbed with equal speed whether given orally, or rectally ( nonintravenous routes are convenient in outside hospital settings ), but diazepam's high lipid solubility also means it does not remain in the vascular space, but soon redistributes into other body tissues.

Melatonin has been suggested as a radioprotective agent, with the proposed advantages of being broadly protective, readily available, orally self-administered, and without major known side effects.

Vedic Sanskrit has been orally preserved as a part of the Śrauta tradition of Vedic chanting, predating the advent of alphabetic writing in India by several centuries.

It has been preserved and transmitted orally, through print and later through recordings.

As the theory of immune intolerance as a cause of pre-eclampsia has become accepted, women who suffer repeated pre-eclampsia, miscarriages, or In Vitro Fertilization failures could potentially be administered key immune factors such as TGF-beta along with the father's foreign proteins, possibly either orally, as a sublingual spray, or as a vaginal gel to be applied onto the vaginal wall before intercourse.

Loratadine is given orally, is well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, and has rapid first-pass hepatic metabolism ; it is metabolized by isoenzymes of the cytochrome P450 system, including CYP3A4, CYP2D6, and, to a lesser extent, several others.

When orally consumed, 2C-B has a much longer delay before the onset of effects than when it is insufflated.

He or she is also the chief legal advisor of the Crown and its government, and has the primary role of advising the government on any legal repercussions of their actions, either orally at meetings or in writing.

Methylcobalamin, a specific form of Vitamin B-12 found in spinal fluid, has been studied and shown to have significant effect, taken orally or injected, in treating and improving diabetic neuropathy.