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intravenous drip

n. slow continuous drip introducing solutions intravenously (a drop at a time)

Usage examples of "intravenous drip".

Weak, having for so long received all liquid by intravenous drip, kept perilously close to mortal dehydration, Maxwell Dalton could not have replied except in a fragile voice so full of rasp and squeak as to be comical.

Or to be more precise, I tried to shrug -- it's not that easy when one wrist is handcuffed above your head and the other arm is on the receiving end of an intravenous drip.

The one on the left reconnected him to the intravenous drip from which he was receiving drugs, not nourishment.

His blankets had been turned down to free his bare right arm for the intravenous drip lines.

Norman lifted the icepack to look at the swollen face, and adjusted the flow of the intravenous drip in Harry’.

Norman lifted the icepack to look at the swollen face, and adjusted the flow of the intravenous drip in Harry's arm.

The intravenous drip proved equally unnecessary within the first day.

I tried to swallow liquids, but nothing stayed down-so I moistened my parched lips and throat, and let the intravenous drip do the rest.

An intravenous drip had been taped to her bare arm, pumping powerful sedatives into her system.

The ethyl-glucose-saline mixture in carboys had been slung from a rafter over his bunk with the tubing leading to the needle plunged into his arm and taped into place as an intravenous drip.