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The word 'intravenous' is a correct and commonly used term in written English
It refers to a medical procedure or treatment that is administered through a vein, typically by using a needle or catheter. Example: The patient was experiencing severe dehydration and needed immediate hydration, so the doctor ordered intravenous fluids to be administered. Other examples of usage: - The surgeon successfully completed the intravenous procedure to remove the patient's blood clot. - The nurse carefully inserted the intravenous line to deliver the medication directly into the patient's bloodstream. - The athlete received intravenous therapy to help with muscle recovery after a strenuous training session.
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intravenous
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A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
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People were lying in rows on mattresses, surrounded by bloodsoaked tissues, and lined the corridors, hooked up to intravenous drips.
Rampant intravenous drug use, collapsing health and education systems, and a lack of political will to deal with the disease is fuelling an AIDS explosion: the number of HIV infections has grown by three-fifths since last year.
Skyscrapers in the sky To infinity and beyond Machines with a human touch List makers take control Drugs ex machina An incurable itch ReprintsThen there is intravenous injection of drugs.
What needed to be shouted from the rooftops was that, contrary to some popular views, AIDS is not primarily a disease of gay western men or of intravenous drug injectors.
Dehydrated and with his blood-sugar levels and blood pressure down to alarming levels, the 57-year-old former president was on November 16th taken to hospital, and given intravenous glucose and saline drips.
In Britain the overwhelming majority of patients contract the virus from recreational intravenous drug use or from contaminated blood products during medical treatment abroad.One is more at risk sharing a toothbrush with somebody who is hepatitis C positive than sharing a bed with them.
The growing use of intravenous drugs, and the increased production of heroin and amphetamines by ethnic-minority militias, will only exacerbate the epidemic.Not only AIDS but also malaria, anthrax and old-fashioned malnutrition are decimating the people of Myanmar.
Intravenous drug use, almost unheard of in west Africa not long ago, is more frequent.
And too few clean needles or syringes are distributed to addicts who shoot up, as intravenous drug use rises.
Before ORT, the standard treatment was an intravenous drip, at a cost of $50 per baby.
In Europe and the Americas, home to 580,000 HIV-infected young men, boys are twice as likely to be infected as girls because of homosexual transmission and higher rates of intravenous drug use.
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