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injection /ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n /noun1An instance of injecting or being injected: painkilling injections an injection of capital was needed...- There is no proven benefit to topical ointments, suppositories, or injections of local anesthetic.
- The area is numbed with an injection of local anesthetic.
- It also highlighted excessive use of injections and blood transfusions without proper sterilisation.
1.1A thing that is injected: a morphine injection...- Although I have a very high pain threshold, I was requiring more and more morphine injections.
- The pain subsided more than usual and I was spared the pin cushion process of endless morphine injections.
- Some patients benefit from physical therapy and cortisone injections.
1.2 [mass noun] The action of injecting: the walls have been damp-proofed by injection...- Usually they are given by intravenous injection, by infusion pump into a vein or orally.
- EDITOR We have three comments about Pickup et al's meta-analysis comparing insulin infusion with injection, which may cast a different light on their main conclusion.
- Samples were introduced by gravity injection from 20 cm height for 20 s.
Synonyms introduction, instilling, infusion, imbuing, inculcation 1.3 short for fuel injection.Compared to the systems in today's direct-injected diesels, the injection systems will probably operate at lower pressures, which will keep the costs down....- We are making big inroads with our diesel injection technology, and currently we equip the Duramax and Cummins light truck diesel engines with our components.
- A proportion of the new model was sold with the carry-over, 2.5 litre, 8 valve, indirect injection diesel engine.
2 [mass noun] The entry or placing of a spacecraft or other object into an orbit or trajectory.Since injection into orbit the spacecraft's behaviour has been nominal....- The spacecraft becomes fully automated after injection into orbit.
- An autonomous telemetry system transmitted data on the payload environment during all the flight phases, from liftoff to in-orbit injection.
3 Mathematics A one-to-one mapping. OriginLate Middle English: from Latin injectio(n-), from the verb inicere (see inject). Rhymesabjection, affection, circumspection, collection, complexion, confection, connection, convection, correction, defection, deflection, dejection, detection, direction, ejection, election, genuflection, imperfection, infection, inflection, inspection, insurrection, interconnection, interjection, intersection, introspection, lection, misdirection, objection, perfection, predilection, projection, protection, refection, reflection, rejection, resurrection, retrospection, section, selection, subjection, transection, vivisection |