The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inject \In*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Injected; p. pr. & vb. n. Injecting.] [L. injectus, p. p. of inicere, injicere, to throw in; pref. in- in + jacere to throw: cf. F. injecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]
To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.
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Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.
C[ae]sar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.
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To cast or throw; -- with on. [R.]
And mound inject on mound.
--Pope. (Anat.) To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.
to add in; to insert; to interject; as, to inject a comment into the conversation; to inject humor into a tense situation.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of inject English)
Usage examples of "injecting".
Experiments showing that the effects of protein synthesis inhibitors on memory could be mimicked by injecting large quantities of some of their constituent amino acids were made by one of my earliest graduate students, John Hambley, on his return to Australia: Hambley, J, and Rogers, L J Some neurochemical correlates of permanent learning deficits associated with intracerebral injections of amino acids in young chick brain.
This depends on injecting very short-lived and presumably non-hazardous radioisotopes into the bloodstream and then detecting, by means of their emission of positrons, where they are in the brain at times up to half an hour or so after injection.
By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again, injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results -one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left, and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other!
Garcia was able to mimic this bait shyness experimentally if, instead of using poisoned food, he allowed the animals to eat normal food, either at an unfamiliar site or coloured in an unusual way, and subsequently made them sick by injecting a small dose of lithium chloride into their gut.
Essentially the experimental design involved exposing day-old chicks to an imprinting stimulus, injecting them with radioactive precursors to RNA or protein, and measuring the amount of radioactivity in protein or RNA extracted from different brain regions.
There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar's brain into his critics - a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of!
I have said (in Chapter 2) that one can calculate the rate of protein synthesis by injecting a radioactively labelled amino acid into the bloodstream and measuring the amount of radioactivity to be found in the protein of particular brain regions after a given time.
I repeated the experiment, training chicks in the morning and then injecting separate groups with either 2-Dgal or, as controls, with saline, every hour for the next twelve.
She found herself measuring her words carefully, injecting them with sufficient promise to seem compliant.
Daffyd asked, injecting placatory thoughts at the irritated little man.