Noun: injection
| Singular | injection |
| Plural | injections |
Sample Sentences
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For some indications in PET imaging, it is necessary for radiopharmaceutical injections to be administered contralaterally or pedally to the disease process [2010, Paul Shreve, David W. Townsend, Clinical PET-CT in Radiology: Integrated Imaging in Oncology, →ISBN, page 78:]
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The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
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a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
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It had been determined that one of the whip turnstile antennas had broken off from Explorer 1 shortly after injection into orbit, so these were eliminated. [2015, Henry L. Richter, America's Leap Into Space:]
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conjunctival injection
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direct injection
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tuned port injection
Nouns inflected like injection
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French injection, from Latin iniectio. The mathematical sense is from French injection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique. Equivalent to inject + -ion. See: Latin Nouns '
iniectio', French Nouns '
injection'.
Verbs referencing "injection"
Finnish Nouns
injektio.