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Translingual vs Sublingual - What's the difference?

translingual | sublingual |

In medicine terms the difference between translingual and sublingual

is that translingual is occurring or being measured across the tongue while sublingual is administered through placement under the tongue.

As adjectives the difference between translingual and sublingual

is that translingual is existing in multiple languages while sublingual is administered through placement under the tongue.

translingual

English

Adjective

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  • Existing in multiple languages.
  • * 1994 , Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan (eds), English Comedy
  • The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.
  • Having the same meaning in many languages.
  • No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
  • (of a phrase) containing words of multiple languages
  • * 1985 , W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise
  • Darien can make translingual jokes''
  • (translation studies) Operating between different languages
  • * 1986 , James S. Holmes, Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies
  • This receiver, as translator, then performs a kind of "translingual transfer" to encode in a second language a new message that is intended to "mean the same" . .
  • (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue
  • * 1985 , Hech, Welter & DeSimone, Chemical Senses
  • Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.

    sublingual

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (medicine) Administered through placement under the tongue.
  • (anatomy) Situated beneath the tongue.
  • Derived terms

    * sublingual artery * sublingual caruncle * sublingual duct * sublingual gland * sublingual immunotherapy * sublingual nerve * sublingual nucleus