hypodermic's Usage Examples:

They may be applied externally as fomentations, for the relief of tormina; by rectal injection for the relief of the tenesmus and irritability of the bowel; hypodermically in advanced cases, for the relief of the general distress.

There is some reason to believe that this complicated and variable apparatus is used for stabbing the body of another animal and that beginning as a weapon for catching prey it has become modified for hypodermic impregnation and only gradually adapted for insertion into the bursa copulatrix.

The dose is 310 grain, and should invariably be administered by hypodermic injection.

Such wastes include used hypodermic syringes frequently with a needle still attached and small vessels or vials that contained medicines (drugs ).

It has been used for the cure of lupus and of keloid, in which case it is administered hypodermically.

In pneumonia and other acute disease, where the patient is liable to sudden collapse, a hypodermic injection of strychnine will often save the patient's life.

Strychnine enters the blood as such, being freely absorbed from mucous surfaces or when given hypodermically.

The injections are made by means of a hypodermic syringe into the subcutaneous tissue, into a vein, into one of the serous sacs, or more rarely into some special part of the body.

The most frequent mode of administration is the hypodermic method, on account of the extreme rapidity with which it is absorbed.

The possible cesspit was not examined, bearing in mind the possibility of the presence of hypodermics needles.

Of the numerous preparations only two need be mentioned - the liquid extract (dose 10 minims to 2 drachms or more), and the hypodermic injection.

Morphine may be given hypodermically to mitigate the pain.

Chronic opium poisoning by the taking of laudanum - as in the familiar case of De Quincey - need not be considered here, as the hypodermic injection of morphine has almost entirely supplanted it.

Synonyms:

hypo, hypodermic syringe, syringe, autoinjector, hypodermic needle,

Antonyms:

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