intravenous
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AdjectiveEdit
intravenous (not comparable)
- Inside the veins.
- 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 116:
- Ikenna had typhoid and had been admitted at the hospital, receiving intravenous injections.
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inside the veins
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NounEdit
intravenous (uncountable) (abbreviated as IV)
- (medicine) A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
- Get his morphine intravenous started stat!