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Paternal vs Injectable - What's the difference?

paternal | injectable |

As adjectives the difference between paternal and injectable

is that paternal is of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family while injectable is capable of being (or designed to be) injected.

As a noun injectable is

(pharmacy) a drug which is designed to be injected.

paternal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family
    • paternal grandfather
  • Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  • Received or inherited from one's father.
  • * Dryden
    • their small paternal field of corn
  • Acting as a father
    • paternal filicide

    Derived terms

    * paternalism * paternalistic * paternally * paternal aunt * paternal cousin * paternal grandfather * paternal grandmother * paternal uncle

    Antonyms

    * maternal – mother

    Coordinate terms

    * avuncular – uncle * maternal – mother * materteral – aunt

    Anagrams

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    injectable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being (or designed to be) injected

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pharmacy) A drug which is designed to be injected
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 3, Amy Zipkin, Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Complex high-cost drug therapy, such as injectables and infusions, are close to a $70 billion sector. }}