Injection

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A specimen prepared by injection.

II. Injection ·noun The cold water thrown into a condenser.

III. Injection ·noun The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

IV. Injection ·noun The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

V. Injection ·noun That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an Enema.

VI. Injection ·noun 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.

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