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INTRAVENOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an intravenous manner
Example:
the patient had to be fed intravenously
Classified under:
Pertainym:
intravenous (within or by means of a vein)
Context examples:
The creation of an image of the kidneys and urinary system using an intravenously administered contrast medium.
(Intravenous pyelography, NCI Thesaurus)
A method of euthanization whereby a subject is anesthetized and barbiturate(s) are administered intravenously to induce respiratory arrest.
(Intravenous Barbiturate Overdose Euthanasia, NCI Thesaurus)
The isolated TILs were grown in the laboratory to large numbers and then infused into the patient intravenously.
(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)
When administered intravenously in low doses, this agent may convert methemoglobin to hemoglobin.
(Methylene Blue, NCI Thesaurus)
Intravenously administered drug is diluted in the pooled venous blood and pumped through lungs before entering systematic circulation (lung first-pass effect).
(Intravenous infusion, NCI Thesaurus)
In adoptive cell transfer, T cells are extracted from a patient’s tumor tissue, expanded to great numbers in the laboratory, and then administered intravenously into the patient along with a T-cell growth factor, with hopes that these cells will return to sites of cancer and eliminate it.
(Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice, NIH)
In addition, due to its lipophilic cholesteryl moiety this agent is able to cross the blood brain barrier (BBB) and therefore can be given intravenously compared to other alkylating agents that need to be given intra-cranially.
(DM-CHOC-PEN, NCI Thesaurus)
