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intravenously

adv. (context medicine English) In an intravenous manner; by means of intravenous injection.

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intravenously

adv. in an intravenous manner; "the patient had to be fed intravenously"

Usage examples of "intravenously".

Lidocaine, the antiarrhythmic and lo-cal anesthetic, for instance, could cause prolonged seizures if given intravenously in large enough doses.

After consulting with Kate, Sarchi substituted an oral antifungal for the one Gilbert had been receiving intravenously, and she shipped the boy back to Brunswick.

We gave him fluids intravenously, and the doctors did some more tests and gave him some more chemotherapy.

Toward the end the doctors gave joy her pain medication intravenously so she would not wake up.

Intravenously, the succinyl-choline, which relaxed the body muscles and made way for the endotracheal intubation, affording Dr.

Over the next three hours he received three quarts of plasma and two quarts of salt water intravenously, to replace fluids lost from sweating and diarrhea.

The kind of operations patients underwent in the Trauma Unit required heavy doses of painkillers, doses that could only be administered intramuscularly or intravenously.

The patient was started on two grams of cephalothin antibiotic intravenously, and was given more tetanus toxoid.

She’d been sedated with phenobarbital, and they were administering Decadron intravenously to prevent brain swelling.

Goodman injected intravenously a 6 cc bolus of Innovar, the same droperidol and fentanyl combination that had been used as the pre-op medication.

The chemicals Adriamycin and Taxotere were given intravenously from a bag, and the process took four hours.

Injected intravenously, the blood serum gives protection for at least fourteen days, which is ordinarily sufficient time for an epidemic disease to run its course.

The condition of Commander Warrington and his navigating officer is unchanged - Cunningham is still in deep coma and is being fed intravenously.

He could feel the needle of a drug-drip, intravenously feeding him the contents of an upended bottle labeled with a skull and crossbones.