intravenous injection
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- noun
- /ˌɪntrəˈviːnəs ɪnˈdʒɛkʃən/
- Specialized
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inyección intravenosa
- The only effective treatment is intravenous injection of human immunoglobulin G, which is the main antibody fraction in blood.
Examples
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To my surprise, he reported that infections from contaminated intravenous injections were the only cause of drug-related deaths he saw, except for occasional deaths from overdoses.
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This is fastest with an intravenous injection and slower with intramuscular and subcutaneous injections and with oral doses.
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Her personal physician was forced to give her an intravenous injection of protein simply to keep her alive.
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It's an intravenous injection, and he wasn't receiving that kind of treatment.
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Ready for intravenous injection.
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2, 3 Intra-arterial injection of antibiotics results in higher tissue concentrations than intravenous injection.
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Mice were treated with a daily intravenous injection of 100 mg/kg Simvastatin or PBS for 28 days.
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Similar differences in tumor size were also observed following implantation of tumor cells in ACE10/10 mice on an outbred genetic background and following intravenous injection of tumor cells 57, 58.
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After the microcirculatory observations had been completed, the rats were euthanized with a 2 mL intravenous injection of Beuthanasia-D (Intervet/Schering-Plough, USA).
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The doctor recommended an intravenous injection to quickly deliver the medication into the patient's bloodstream.
Synonyms
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A small tube used to give fluid or medicine directly into a vein
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A liquid medicine put into the body with a needle
How Painful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'injecting directly into a vein' is directly and compositionally derived from 'intravenous' (into the bloodstream/vein) + 'injection' (administering a substance with a syringe). This adjective+noun medical composition is transparent and cross-linguistically regular, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Intravenous injection shows a simple picture: intravenous means 'into a vein' and injection means putting liquid in with a needle, so it literally describes medicine going straight into the blood. That's why it means 'an injection given directly into a vein'.