INJECTION

Injection

An injection 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, fear of needles is a common phobia.

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injection

Noun

  1. The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
  2. Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
  3. A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f: X → Y such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.
  4. A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
  5. The addition of money to someone, or to a business.
    The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
  6. The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.
    a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
  7. A specimen prepared by injection.
  8. The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
  9. The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.


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