{"term":{"id":"15146","title":"administration of drugs parenteral route","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - administration of drugs parenteral route","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15146","code":"15146","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Method of introducing substances into an organism, avoiding the gastrointestinal tract.","notes":{"1":"Parenteral routes may be employed whenever enteral routes are contraindicated or inadequate.","2":"Parenteral administration includes some conventional (intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous) and some special (intradermal, intraventricular, etc.) routes.","3":"Parenteral products can be solutions, suspensions, and emulsions. They are presented as sterile products. It is commonly used to imply administration by injection or infusion."},"links":[{"term":"administration","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15143"},{"term":"intramuscular","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15201"}],"sources":["PAC, 2009, 81, 971. 'Glossary of terms related to pharmaceutics (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 974 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-04-10-14)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15146\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15146\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15146\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'administration of drugs parenteral route' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.15146","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-11T02:10:40+00:00"}}