rectally
Adverb
Meaning
rectally (not comparable)
Through the rectum.
The thermometer had to be inserted rectally.
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Fever itself is not life-threatening unless it is extremely and persistently high, such as greater than 107 F (41.6 C) when measured rectally.
If you took the alcohol rectally however, it would take just seconds to go from a normal state to a legally intoxicated state — without the ability to vomit or rid your body of some of the excess (vomiting usually occurs between 0.10 to 0.15 percent).
Occult bleeding has many of the same causes as other forms of more rapid gastrointestinal bleeding, such as (passage of red blood and/or rectally) and melena (black tarry stool as a result of bleeding from the upper such as ulcers).