How to Use injection in a Sentence
injection
noun- The medicine cannot be taken orally; it must be given by injection.
- The struggling company needed an injection of cash.
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It can be administered as an injection or a nasal spray.
— Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2023 -
An injection of local anesthetic is given to the area around the cervix, and the cervix is gently dilated or opened up.
— Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023 -
This was sometimes accompanied by an injection of bone marrow.
— WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023 -
Any changes made to the lethal injection protocol were not documented publicly.
— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024 -
Evusheld, for instance, is a preventive injection that helps make up for patients’ antibody shortfall.
— Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor dec. 13, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022 -
She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
— Time, 2 Jan. 2023 -
Wegovy is a weekly injection made by Novo Nordisk that is used for patients ages 12 and older.
— Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2023 -
An epidural is an injection via a catheter of either an anesthetic agent or a steroid into a person’s epidural space, the space in the body surrounding the spinal nerves.
— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022 -
At face value, this makes sense, but the injection of the insurance company in between the patient and the doctor causes problems.
— Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 -
McLaughlin, 49, is scheduled to die by injection in Missouri on Tuesday.
— Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2023 -
Adverse reactions can include pain and swelling in the injection site, fatigue, crankiness, sleepiness, headache, muscle aches and sometimes fever.
— Katia Hetter, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022 -
The most recent execution in Oregon was in 1997 by lethal injection.
— Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022 -
Even fine dining’s highest-profile restaurateurs admit that their industry’s business model is broken and needs an injection of creativity.
— Tristan Bove, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2023 -
Malkovich adds an injection of prestige to the project.
— Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024 -
The second week of injections was when things started to change.
— Paige Stables, Allure, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Still, there are likely to be many patients who are turned off by the idea of injections.
— Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 1 June 2023 -
All of the wastewater will be disposed of through deep well injection.
— Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023 -
None of the 2,134 women taking the twice-a-year injection contracted the virus.
— Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 21 June 2024 -
If an injection is painful, apply pressure to the site for a few seconds, but do not rub it.
— Barbie Cervoni, Rd, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Such injections are common and only barred by HISA in the two weeks before a race.
— Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024 -
After the water cools off the equipment, it gets pushed deep down below the ground via injection wells.
— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024 -
None of it matters without the injection of fire that Tina Turner brings.
— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2023 -
Why should a once-a-week injection produce much more weight loss than a once-a-day injection?
— Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023 -
William Speer, 49, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
— CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023 -
In one episode, some of the women bond at a med spa by getting Botox injections together.
— Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024 -
There is a version of a drug like this that can be taken via pill, but [most versions are] a weekly injection.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023 -
The facility got oxygen injections, and the team had some food supplies stored ahead of time—cheating in the view of some, but who wants to die in a glass house?
— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 July 2023 -
The most common complaints were redness at the injection site and fatigue.
— Jen Christensen, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
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