INTRAVENOUS INJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intravenous injection mean? 

• INTRAVENOUS INJECTION (noun)
  The noun INTRAVENOUS INJECTION has 1 sense:

1. an injection into a vein

  Familiarity information: INTRAVENOUS INJECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRAVENOUS INJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An injection into a vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("intravenous injection" is a kind of...):

injection; shot (the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intravenous injection"):

fix (something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug)

 Context examples 

Upon intravenous injection, ICG rapidly binds to its principle carrier, plasma protein, and is thereby confined to the vascular space.

(Indocyanine Green Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravenous injection, iodine-131 human serum albumin is slowly deiodinated in vivo, releasing radioactive iodide that is taken up by thyroid gland.

(Iodinated I-131 Serum Albumin, NCI Thesaurus)

The particles were delivered to the mice by intravenous injection.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)

An enhancing lesion is a well-demarcated area of unequivocally increased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo (SE) images compared with normal-appearing, surrounding tissue following intravenous injection of a gadolinium chelate.

(Enhancing Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)

Following isolation of lymphocytes, retroviral vector transduction, and expansion of the cells ex vivo, the inducible IL-12/anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR-expressing autologous PBLs are re-administered into the patient by intravenous injection.

(Autologous Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Cotransduced with Retroviral Vectors Encoding Inducible IL-12 and Anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravenous injection, docetaxel binds to and stabilizes tubulin, which inhibits microtubule disassembly and results in both cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and cell death.

(Nanosomal Docetaxel Lipid Suspension, NCI Thesaurus)

Following ingestion of ER 5-FC, intravenous injection of a retroviral vector encoding cytosine deaminase (TC 511) at a tumor site may result in higher local concentrations of 5-FU and its metabolites, and increased tumor cell death than other 5-FU treatment regimens.

(Extended Release Flucytosine, NCI Thesaurus)