English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From intra- + venous.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪntɹəˈviːnəs/
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Adjective[edit]
intravenous (not comparable)
- Inside the veins.
2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 116:Ikenna had typhoid and had been admitted at the hospital, receiving intravenous injections.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
inside the veins
- Belarusian: унутраве́нны (unutravjénny), нутраве́нны (nutravjénny), унутрыве́нны (unutryvjénny), нутравэ́нны (nutravénny), давэ́нны (davénny)
- Bulgarian: вено́зен (venózen)
- Catalan: intravenós (ca)
- Czech: nitrožilní (cs)
- Danish: intravenøs
- Dutch: intraveneus (nl)
- Finnish: laskimonsisäinen, intravenoosinen (fi)
- French: intraveineux (fr), endoveineux
- German: intravenös (de)
- Hungarian: intravénás (hu)
- Indonesian: intravena (id)
- Italian: intravenoso, endovenoso (it)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: intravenøs
- Nynorsk: intravenøs
- Polish: dożylny (pl)
- Portuguese: intravenoso (pt), endovenoso
- Romanian: intravenos (ro)
- Russian: внутриве́нный (ru) (vnutrivénnyj)
- Slovak: vnútrožilový
- Spanish: intravenoso, endovenoso
- Swedish: intravenös (sv)
- Ukrainian: внутрішньове́нний (vnutrišnʹovénnyj), внутріве́нний (vnutrivénnyj)
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intravenous (uncountable) (abbreviated as IV)
- (medicine) A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
Get his morphine intravenous started stat!
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein
