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Injection   /ɪndʒˈɛkʃən/   Listen
noun
Injection  n.  
1.
The act of injecting or throwing in; applied particularly to the forcible insertion of a liquid or gas, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.
2.
That which is injected; especially, a liquid inserted thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema.
3.
(Anat.)
(a)
The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.
(b)
A specimen prepared by injection.
4.
(Steam Eng.)
(a)
The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
(b)
The cold water thrown into a condenser.
Injection cock, or Injection valve (Steam Eng.), the cock or valve through which cold water is admitted into a condenser.
Injection condenser. See under Condenser.
Injection pipe, the pipe through which cold water is through into the condenser of a steam engine.
fuel injection, a method of inserting fuel into internal-combustion engines by directly forcing the liquid fuel into the combustion chamber at an appropriate point in the piston cycle; in contrast to carburetion, in which an air-fuel mixture is drawn in by the downward stroke of the piston.





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"Injection" Quotes from Famous Books



... without ducts, supplied special substances to the blood which were useful or necessary to the normal health, and in 1889 at a meeting of the Societe de Biologie he described the experiment he had made upon himself by the injection of testicular extract. This was the commencement of organotherapy. Since that time investigation of the more important organs of internal secretion—namely, the gonads, thyroid, thymus, suprarenals, ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... interposed here and stated that his research with the injection of uric acid into rats caused a marked rise in intelligence, and if the Administration would just pay attention and let him have the grant he was asking, he felt confident that research in how to change the ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... boys John went among the sufferers, and administered the medicine, giving at each injection about 1-64th of a grain. It was remarkable in its effects. Within a half hour the sickening feeling in the stomach disappeared, the eyes began to grow bright again, the pulse full, and the patient became ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands • Roger Thompson Finlay
... scrambling over them, it would have been equally possible to circle it, walking on them, without stepping on the floor. In the course of our first long official interview with the General, he informed us that we were "an injection into ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... only of him; she wanted no one younger and handsomer; in her eyes and thoughts he was not old: he was her boy. Those words had a terrible effect upon him. They entered his blood as if they had been an injection of some sweetly narcotic drug; thy lanced deep into his bowels as if they had been a surgeon's knife; they made him like a half-anesthetized patient who at the same time dreams of paradise and feels that ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell


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