administered intravenously or by injection For example, medications or vaccines may be administered by injection into the fatty layer immediately below the skin (subcutaneous), or into the muscle (intramuscular) Medications, but not vaccines, can also be administered into a vein (intravenously)
Outside the digestive tract This term refers to intravenous, subcutaneous and other nonoral modes of administering medications and therapies See also Enteral
—Not through the alimentary canal but rather by injection through some other route, as subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraorbital, intracapsular, intraspinal, intrasternal, intravenous, etc