How to Use intramuscular in a Sentence

intramuscular

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Naloxone is available as a nasal spray and as an intramuscular injection.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The goal of the trial is to determine whether a single intramuscular dose could prevent hospitalizations and deaths.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• For intramuscular injections to be most effective, the needle needs to penetrate the muscle, not fat.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
• On bigger shoulders, a one-inch needle would be too short for intramuscular injections.
  — James Heathers, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
• Administering an intramuscular vaccine too high on the shoulder can cause a rare and painful injury.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The two-part vaccine strategy first employs an intramuscular DNA vaccine.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Study participants will receive either the nasal spray form or an intramuscular injection of vaccine.
  — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024