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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
injection
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fuel injection
injection moulding
▪ injection-moulded fittings
lethal injection
▪ death by lethal injection
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
▪ Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years - even if they have daily injections of insulin.
▪ Pain-Free Progesterone: Women undergoing infertility treatment are sometimes required to undergo daily injections to deliver the hormone progesterone.
▪ Researchers say the grafting of pancreatic cells may eventually free many from daily injections.
▪ People with Type 1 diabetes must closely monitor their blood sugar and take daily insulin injections.
▪ But melatonin did. Daily injections of melatonin given at 3.30 each afternoon, entrained the rats to a 24 hour cycle.
direct
▪ The bike, launched in 1996, was intended to revolutionise two-strokes thanks to Bimota's direct fuel injection technology.
endoscopic
▪ Further study of endoscopic injection is needed.
▪ Recent attention has focused on endoscopic injection with encouraging results.
epinephrine
▪ Pure alcohol injection after an epinephrine injection tended to decrease the rebleeding rate in our series.
▪ Controversy still exists concerning the need of sclerosing agents injection after epinephrine injection.
▪ The rebleeding rate was high, however, and this could be decreased with pure alcohol injection after the epinephrine injection.
▪ For patients with spurting peptic ulcers, we suggest pure alcohol injection after an epinephrine injection instead of epinephrine injection alone.
▪ Heater probe may be less effective, however, than epinephrine injection in the initial control of active haemorrhage.
▪ The fourth patient required local epinephrine injection in addition to repeated heater probe pulses and was considered a failure in the final statistical analysis.
intravenous
▪ He had given the patient an intravenous injection of diazepam to calm him down.
▪ Practically, problems can arise when administering the intravenous injection.
lethal
▪ McVeigh is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at a federal prison in Terre Haute.
▪ California has executed four San Quentin inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, the last two by lethal injection.
▪ You know, lethal injection, the needle.
▪ He would be the first California death row inmate to be executed by lethal injection.
▪ Death will come by lethal injection, rather than cyanide gas, since gassing has been challenged in California as unduly cruel.
▪ If his execution proceeds as scheduled, he would become the first to die by lethal injection in California.
▪ If he is convicted, he could face death by lethal injection.
subcutaneous
▪ Octreotide is usually given by intermittent subcutaneous injection of 100-500 µg twice daily or three times daily.
▪ For the moment we have to rely on intermittent subcutaneous injections which impose quite definite restrictions.
total
▪ At this higher interest rate, total injections amount to only £10 million.
▪ This will raise aggregate demand directly and, by increasing total injections, will have a multiplier effect on income.
▪ Leakages of saving, taxation, and imports will fall as income declines until once again total leakages equal total injections.
▪ The total injections, total withdrawals and aggregate demand lines for this economy are drawn together with a 45° line in Fig. 6.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ Manchester-based Eyeline faces closure unless it gets an urgent 12,000 cash injection.
▪ The club needs an immediate cash injection of £8,000.
▪ Donations are the key, although Crisis makes a cash injection of around £50,000.
▪ Thirteen landowners from Kesgrave are planning High Court action against the authority after giving a cash injection of £1.9 million.
▪ West Berlin was always a social security case, getting massive cash injections from Bonn.
▪ Mr Gleeson said it would be unfair to suggest the cash injection had something to do with the forthcoming General Election.
▪ It also announced that it would take no new orders as it hunts around for a cash injection to keep it solvent.
▪ The government can also offset the £ 100 cash injection by future taxation or borrowing and thus prevent deposit creation.
drug
▪ Vasomax is an oral version of a current injection drug that dilates penile blood vessels.
▪ Perhaps a youth tempted by injection drugs.
▪ About 30 percent use injection drugs, and 33 percent have a psychiatric disorder.
fuel
▪ He would outlaw tuning kit like Dynojet's Power Commander, which alters fuel injection and engine management systems.
▪ Voxan's V-twin uses a Magneti Marelli sequential fuel injection system, similar to that used on the 996.
▪ This allows the fuel injection system to be re-mapped to suit the capacity.
▪ Mechanically the entry level Polos remain the same, bar the adoption of fuel injection.
▪ The bike, launched in 1996, was intended to revolutionise two-strokes thanks to Bimota's direct fuel injection technology.
▪ Again, a full engine management system monitors performance and controls the fuel injection and ignition systems.
▪ A replacement policy for fuel injection pumps.
▪ All of the Corsa autos, in fact, use the 1.4i single point fuel injection engine.
insulin
▪ Only recently has the importance of the timing of insulin injections in relation to meals become fully realised.
▪ Both foot amputations and insulin injections are treatments for diabetes, but only the latter is specific to the disease process.
▪ Therapeutically, this resistance can often be overcome by insulin injections.
▪ Also, about 15 percent of the patients on 400 milligrams were able to stop insulin injections altogether.
▪ Diabetics have to eat regularly if their illness is to be kept under control with insulin injections.
▪ People with Type 1 diabetes must closely monitor their blood sugar and take daily insulin injections.
▪ All patients gave themselves two or more insulin injections daily.
system
▪ Voxan's V-twin uses a Magneti Marelli sequential fuel injection system, similar to that used on the 996.
▪ Despite the complex injection system, it should only add a few hundred pounds to the cost of the bikes.
▪ This allows the fuel injection system to be re-mapped to suit the capacity.
▪ A revised Marelli fuel injection system completes the changes.
■ VERB
administer
▪ An anaesthetic was administered by injection.
▪ The Foreign Minister glowered at the Major as he administered the injection.
▪ Others administer substances by intradermal injections and record the size of the cutaneous weal.
▪ Small doses may be in pill form, but usually the drugs are administered by injection or drip.
▪ Practically, problems can arise when administering the intravenous injection.
give
▪ Every so often, he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something, which cheers him up noticeably.
▪ Gerda could be searching for Kay to give him the therapy injection that will save him from the mutation disease.
▪ Why did they need the consultant to give me an injection?
▪ Hospital doctors said Rod was minutes from death when they gave him emergency injections.
▪ Hanson reported, for example, that Wigan Rugby League players frequently played after having been given pain-killing injections.
▪ The doctor gave him an anti-tetanus injection to which the plaintiff was allergic.
▪ One of them, 26 year old Anthony Clarke, gave him an injection of heroin which proved fatal.
▪ Treatment consists of giving anti-inflammatory injections.
need
▪ The club needs an immediate cash injection of £8,000.
▪ Therese, of course, needs nothing but another injection of confidence and some sympathizing over Gesner.
▪ We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire.
▪ Most will need two injections of intermediate-acting insulin a day with some short-acting to cover breakfast, a mid-morning snack and lunch.
▪ In a crisis, it would need a huge injection of public money.
▪ They decided it did, but acknowledged that it needed an injection of new ideas and services.
receive
▪ Rebleeders who did not receive a second injection with the same solution were defined as failed cases.
▪ The other children received regular injections of a placebo, or inert substance.
▪ Perrin determined that all of the infected patients had received injections while in hospital in Benghazi.
▪ Our sick ones received their injections, then off we went to do the shopping.
▪ High-risk patients received 22 intrathecal injections of methotrexate, hydrocortisone, and cytarabine in the first 1 3 years of therapy.
▪ They might receive a second injection with the same solution or other solutions, heater probe thermocoagulation or surgery.
▪ She twirled slowly, feeling his eyes on her so that it was as though she was receiving an injection of adrenalin.
▪ Renong, former commercial arm of the ruling party, received an injection of capital.
require
▪ Intramuscular replacement with magnesium sulfate is painful and requires several injections each day.
▪ It would require an injection of supporters of the ministerial party, divorced from the tradition of the non-political career public servant.
▪ Pain-Free Progesterone: Women undergoing infertility treatment are sometimes required to undergo daily injections to deliver the hormone progesterone.
▪ People ages 18 and older require only a single injection.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a fuel-injection engine
▪ I hate having injections.
▪ Mrs. Wilson, I'm going to give you an injection to help you relax.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Injection

Injection \In*jec"tion\, n. [L. injectio : cf. F. injection.]

  1. The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible insertion of a liquid or gas, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.

  2. That which is injected; especially, a liquid inserted thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema.
    --Mayne.

  3. (Anat.)

    1. The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

    2. A specimen prepared by injection.

  4. (Steam Eng.)

    1. The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

    2. The cold water thrown into a condenser.

      Injection cock, or Injection valve (Steam Eng.), the cock or valve through which cold water is admitted into a condenser.

      Injection condenser. See under Condenser.

      Injection pipe, the pipe through which cold water is through into the condenser of a steam engine.

      fuel injection, a method of inserting fuel into internal-combustion engines by directly forcing the liquid fuel into the combustion chamber at an appropriate point in the piston cycle; in contrast to carburetion, in which an air-fuel mixture is drawn in by the downward stroke of the piston.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
injection

"forcing a fluid into a body" (with a syringe, etc.), early 15c., from Middle French iniection (14c.) or directly from Latin iniectionem (nominative iniectio), noun of action from past participle stem of inicere (see inject).

Wiktionary
injection

n. 1 The act of injecting, or something that is injected. 2 (context specifically medicine English) Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle. 3 (context set theory English) A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a ''f'': ''X'' → ''Y'' such that f

  1. = f

  2. implies a = b for any a, b in the domain. 4 (context mathematics English) A relation on sets ''(X,Y)'' that associates each element of ''Y'' with at most one element of ''X''. 5 (context figuratively English) The addition of money to someone, or to a business. 6 (context programming English) The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion. 7 A specimen prepared by injection. 8 (context steam engines English) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum. 9 (context steam engines English) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum. 10 (context category theory English) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct. 11 (context Contruction English) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.

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WordNet
injection

  1. n. the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure

  2. any solution that is injected (as into the skin) [syn: injectant]

  3. the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe; "the nurse gave him a flu shot" [syn: shot]

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Wikipedia
Injection

Injection or Injected may refer to:

  • Injection (medicine), insertion of liquid into the body with a syringe
  • Injective function in mathematics, a function mapping distinct arguments to distinct values
  • Injection moulding, a technique for making parts from plastic material
  • Injection (economics), a financial boost to an economy
  • Injection (construction), insertion of consolidation materials (i.e. cement grout mixtures, gravel) by means of dry type rotary shortcrete high pressure pumps
  • Injected (band), a rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
  • Injected (album), a 1995 album by Phunk Junkeez
  • Fuel injection, a means of metering fuel into an internal combustion engine
  • Orbit injection, changing a stable orbit into a transfer orbit
  • In broadcasting, the level at which a subcarrier is sent by the transmitter, expressed as a percent of total modulation
  • Injection quills are used in the petrochemical industry to insert chemicals, typically inhibitors, for proper mixture within the base chemical.
Injection (economics)

When a central bank makes a short term loan to a member institution it is said to be injecting liquidity. In the United States, the Federal Reserve maintains a target federal funds rate for banks to loan money overnight to each other. If the lending banks are unwilling to offer enough credit at this rate, the central bank may step in and make loans itself through the discount window. In this role, the central bank is operating as the lender of last resort and is said to be injecting liquidity.

Injection (medicine)

An injection (often referred to as a "shot" in US English, or a "jab" in UK English) is an infusion method of putting fluid into the body, usually with a syringe and a hollow needle which is pierced through the skin to a sufficient depth for the material to be administered into the body. An injection follows a parenteral route of administration; that is, administration via a route other than through the digestive tract. Since the process inherently involves a small puncture wound to the body (with varying degrees of pain depending on injection type and location, medication type, needle gauge and the skill of the individual administering the injection), fear of needles is a common phobia.

There are several methods of injection or infusion used in humans, including intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, intraosseous, intraperitoneal, intrathecal, epidural, intracardiac, intraarticular, intracavernous, and intravitreal. Rodents used for research are often administered intracerebral, intracerebroventricular, or intraportal injections as well. Long-acting forms of subcutaneous/intramuscular injections are available for various drugs, and are called depot injections.

Injections are among the most common health care procedures, with at least 16 billion administered in developing and transitional countries each year. 95% of injections are administered in curative care, 3% are for immunization, and the rest for other purposes, such as blood transfusions. In some instances the term injection is used synonymously with inoculation even by different workers in the same hospital. This should not cause confusion; the focus is on what is being injected/inoculated, not the terminology of the procedure.

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Usage examples of "injection".

He followed ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL167 with an antistaphylococcal injection and finally handed over a sauce bottle filled to the rim with acriflavine solution.

If the stomach be irritable, a tablespoonful of laudanum and one of tincture of lobelia, in four ounces of starch water, administered as an injection, is effectual.

If he be unable to swallow, they may be administered as injections, but should gradually be discontinued as reaction takes place.

A siren dome, a police car, and he pulled back the injection slide on top of his gun, releasing it, aiming steadily.

The birds were amnesic if the agent was injected up to 1-2 hours after training, or around 5-7 hours after training, but not if the injections were at intermediate times or later than 8 hours after training.

It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect, though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience.

He was caged between surgeries, fed raw meat and vitamin injections, anesthetized and programmed in ways that are sophisticated even for today: biofeedback, subliminal conditioning.

My fears were realized when Bunkie went into shock following the fourth injection.

The injection of the tumors with a fluid which causes coagulation of the blood, and which does not completely shut off the return current of the circulation through the tumors, has proved fatal in a small percentage of cases.

I knew when they placed me in the chamber, and though all my senses were quiescent, I was aware of hypodermic injections of a compound to react upon the coagulatory process.

The sudden injection of insight surprised Alan, who was once again reconsidering his assessment of Cozier Maitlin.

In five days they were dead, with exactly those symptoms their brothers had, after injections of the living diphtheria bacilli.

He began his merciful and maybe life-saving injections, and every one of the more than three hundred threatened children who came into the hospital during the next five months received good doses of the diphtheria antitoxin.

Injections of ecdysone brought insects through growth and development at a breakneck pace, resulting in premature death.

Sir John went into the theatre and crossed to a small table, enamelled white, on which were various appliances concerned with the business of giving hypodermic injections.