intranasal
adjective
occurring within or administered through the nose.
intranasally
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a word derived from
intranasal.
Example Sentences
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The vaccine is given intranasally -- such as through a nasal spray -- and provides wide ranging protection in the lungs that lasts for months.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
They had other solutions that could be administered intranasally, and so when they figured out that this could happen, pharmaceutical companies began to innovate in this sort of nasal spray market.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2023
But for a disease that seems to start in people’s noses, none of the available drugs or vaccines are delivered intranasally.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 17, 2022
We inoculated four donor ferrets intranasally, which were then housed in transmission cages and paired with four recipient ferrets.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
It is now certain that healthy persons may develop severe types of lipid pneumonia, especially if they use medicated liquid petrolatum intranasally in large quantities over long periods of time.
From Time Magazine Archive
