Definitions for injection
ɪnˈdʒɛk ʃənin·jec·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.5 / 2 votes

1. injectionnoun

   the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure

2. injection, injectantnoun

   any solution that is injected (as into the skin)

3. injection, shotnoun

   the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe

   "the nurse gave him a flu shot"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. injectionnoun

   The act of injecting, or something that is injected.

2. injectionnoun

   Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.

3. injectionnoun

   A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f:XY such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.

4. injectionnoun

   A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.

5. injectionnoun

   The addition of money to someone, or to a business.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Injectionnoun

   Etymology: injection, French; injectio, Latin.

   1. The act of casting in.

   This salt powdered was, by the repeated injection of well-kindled charcoal, made to flash like melted nitre. Boyle.

   2.Any medicine made to be injected by a syringe, or any other instrument, into any part of the body. John Quincy3.The act of filling the vessels with wax, or any other proper matter, to shew their shapes and ramifications, often done by anatomists. John Quincy

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Injectionnoun

   the act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aeriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc

2. Injectionnoun

   that which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema

3. Injectionnoun

   the act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance

4. Injectionnoun

   a specimen prepared by injection

5. Injectionnoun

   the act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum

6. Injectionnoun

   the cold water thrown into a condenser

7. Etymology: [L. injectio : cf. F. injection.]

FreebaseRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. 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. There are several methods of injection or infusion, including intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, intraosseous, and intraperitoneal. Long-acting forms of subcutaneous/intramuscular injections are available for various drugs, and are called depot injections. Injections are among the most common health care procedures, with at least 16 billion administered in developing and transitional countries each year. 95% of injections are administered in curative care, 3% are for immunization, and the rest for other purposes, such as blood transfusions.

Matched Categories

1. • Insertion
   • Solution

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'injection' in Nouns Frequency: #2435

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of injection in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of injection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of injection in a Sentence

1. Robert Field:

   They are in legal nomads land, this [ announcement ] does not make shooting up legal. What it is, is a decision about what to prosecute, and the city is deciding it will not use its police to prosecute the people who shoot up in the safe injection site.

2. Nafsika Lourentzatos:

   I was terrified, shocked… How did I go from one injection to having my breasts removed?

3. President Trump on Thursday:

   And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning ... it would be interesting to check that, it sounds interesting to me.

4. Thomas Farley:

   We have n’t seen a public health emergency like this in the last century, it’s time for us to rethink our assumptions, and consider options we had n’t seen before. Unlike similar efforts by other cities, the injection sites would not need City Council approval because they would be privately run. Drug-related overdose deaths began to spoke in 2015 with the presence of fetanyl, according to Philadelphia Public Health. ( Fox News) The sites would give drug addicts a safe haven to shoot up and would offer sterile injection equipment, including needles, and Naloxone. Fox News would also give referrals to treatment centers, social services clinics and wound care facilities. The idea comes as a paradigm shift in the nation’s effort to stem the tide of opioid-related deaths.Seattle and New York have been among places that have mulled similar measures, but the efforts stalled because of either legal or bureaucratic hurdles. Canada and Europe have operated similar types of facilities for the last few decades.

5. Toby Lanzer:

   If the harvest is OK, that will help communities come out of a terribly bleak period. If it's not OK, we'll need a massive injection of food quickly.

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