SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subcutaneous injection mean? 

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

1. an injection under the skin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An injection under the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

 Context examples 

Hypertrophy of the subcutaneous adipose tissue at the site of multiple subcutaneous injections of insulin.

(Lipohypertrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon subcutaneous injection of AVR118, this agent affects the synthesis of many pro-inflammatory chemokines and cytokines, especially monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), interleukin (IL)-8, IL-1 beta, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha).

(Immunomodulator OHR/AVR118, NCI Thesaurus)

After subcutaneous injection of the autologous tumor cell proteoliposomes chronic lymphocytic leukemia vaccine, liposomes deliver the encapsulated tumor antigens into the cytosol of antigen presenting cells (APCs).

(Autologous Tumor Cell Proteoliposome Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Subcutaneous injection of TERT(572Y) peptide followed by subcutaneous administration of the TERT(572) peptide may elicit a specific and possibly optimal cytotoxic T cell (CTL) response against hTERT-expressing tumor cells. hTERT, the catalytic subunit of human telomerase, is an human leukocyte antigen-A*0201-restricted cryptic epitope of telomerase.

(HLA-A*0201 Restricted TERT(572Y)/TERT(572) Peptides Vaccine Vx-001, NCI Thesaurus)