Annie Lennox

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

Scottish Musician

Used in medical situations to describe a way of delivering medicines or fluids into the body.

Medical Context

Specifies that a treatment is not taken by mouth, but directly into the veins instead.

Not Oral

Implies that the medicine may act faster because it enters the bloodstream directly.

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 He had a potentially life-threatening condition called epiglottitis. You can Google it, but it's an infection, not of the throat, but of the upper airway, and it can actually cause the airway to close. And fortunately he didn't die. He was placed on intravenous antibiotics

Brian Goldman: Doctors...

 mandrake fruit, and alcohol. Today, anesthesiologists often combine regional, inhalational and intravenous agents to get the right balance for a surgery. Regional anesthesia blocks pain signals from a specific part of the body from getting to the brain.

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 many rooms we waited patiently to see doctors and many men of actually doing intravenous injections just to keep her alive and in those rooms I met several people as many as year people that had and diagnose illnesses people that were

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 he said something that suddenly I never I've heard it but I've never really heard that but you coming it's like an intravenous in that way you know you're laughing in your laughing but it's

Intravenous

Medical Context

Not Oral

Quick Effect

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