How to Use intramuscular in a Sentence
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Those white sections are intramuscular fat, or the fat inside of the meat rather than the fat on the outside of the meat.
—USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
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Fatty brisket, the more popular of the two in Texas, comes from a muscle called the point that’s marbled with more intramuscular fat.
—Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
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In the studies, men were given testosterone via intramuscular shots or through the skin with a hormone patch or gel.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2020
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In research with mice at Yale, Iwasaki has devised a nasal spray that works as a booster to the standard intramuscular shot.
—Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 3 May 2022
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Gracey said the use of the pens results in an intramuscular injection that reduces the risk of serious side effects.
—Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
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In May 2021, Paul got his first intramuscular shot of Lupron Depot, a brand name for leuprolide, designed to suppress the prostate gland’s release of the hormone for three months.
—Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
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For starters, the flu shot is an intramuscular vaccine, which means that it's injected directly into a muscle in your arm.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 29 Oct. 2021
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No companies producing the nasal-spray drug or its intramuscular counterpart have sought to make the drugs available over-the-counter despite several years of prodding by the FDA.
—Julie Wernau, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
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Naloxone is available as a nasal spray and as an intramuscular injection.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
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The team needed to recreate the Wagyu's signature intramuscular fat content, known more commonly as fat marbling or sashi.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2021
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For the first phase of this vaccine approach, Zhou et al. manufactured an intramuscular injection of a DNA vaccine.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
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The goal of the trial is to determine whether a single intramuscular dose could prevent hospitalizations and deaths.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2021
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For intramuscular injections to be most effective, the needle needs to penetrate the muscle, not fat.
—NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
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On bigger shoulders, a one-inch needle would be too short for intramuscular injections.
—James Heathers, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
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Administering an intramuscular vaccine too high on the shoulder can cause a rare and painful injury.
—NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
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In about an hour, Jenkins walks trainees through how to use four types of naloxone, from the original, intramuscular syringe injections to Evzio, an EpiPen-like automated system that costs $4,000 a dose.
—Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 13 Aug. 2017
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Sabin had developed a vaccine based on live polio strains, but was unable to test it in the United States, where much of the population had already received an intramuscular vaccine.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
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That also expands the scope to other countries that may not have the workforce to deliver intramuscular vaccine but may have the capacity to deliver nasal spray.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
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Its popularity comes from that tenderness, and that tenderness is because this steak is cut from the tenderloin — a small section closest to the ribs that is low in intramuscular fat.
—Matt Haines, CNN Underscored, 30 July 2020
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The vaccine is licensed as a two-dose product, with the doses administered via intramuscular injection 28 days apart.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
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Meanwhile, the vitamin IV suites are arranged so two people can sit facing each other while taking intramuscular B-12 shots.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
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Some patients become so distressed while boarding that emergency staff have to put them in restraints or give them intramuscular injections.
—Nathaniel Morris, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
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When the time comes, these ultra-luxe turkeys are hand-plucked, then hung like gamebirds for about a week, which serves to concentrate flavor and tenderize the meat, already succulent with a generous marbling of intramuscular fat.
—Elizabeth G. Dunn and Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
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Ketamine is then administered with one or two intramuscular shots—the mind-altering equivalent of a rocket launch.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
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Five rounds of antibiotics and an intramuscular injection did nothing to relieve the underlying problem, which Hilty learned was an excessive buildup of fluid in her son’s ears.
—Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
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In the meantime, Dr. Bhattacharya said, he was encouraged by recent work showing that people who received an intramuscular flu vaccine had abundant antibodies in the nose.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
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The two-part vaccine strategy first employs an intramuscular DNA vaccine.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
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The ‘intramuscular’ route of transmission proved remarkably effective in slowing transmission of the disease and preventing deaths from the virus, allowing much of the world to slowly re-emerge from pandemic lockdowns.
—Grady McGregor, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2022
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Study participants will receive either the nasal spray form or an intramuscular injection of vaccine.
—Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
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Though given as an intramuscular injection, this shot is different than a vaccine, which activates the immune system.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2023
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