exploratively
advEtymology From explorative + -ly.
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In an explorative way or fashion.
- Stones had escaped detection in 9% of the 132 cases with contrast-medium passage to the duodenum both pre- and post-exploratively.1973, J. E. Jorpes, V. Mutt, Secretin, cholecystokinin, pancreozymin and gastrin:
- Synonyms
- exploratorily