intravenous

English

From intra- +‎ venous.

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.
- 2024 January 9, Scott Snowden, “Santa Monica rolls out mobile mental health unit”, in Santa Monica Daily Press‎^[1]:
  The inside of the vehicle is pretty sparse and there are no oxygen tanks, intravenous drips or machines that go "ping."

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 (fr)
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)

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!

a dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein