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A specimen prepared by injection.

An injection succeeding another.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. Clyster pipe, a tube or pipe used for injections.

ing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.

's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light. -- Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water. -- Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metalli…

An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.

The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.

An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer. Spray condenser (Steam Engine) an injection condenser in which the steam is condensed by a spray of water which mingles with it.

ound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anæsthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anæsthesia below the point of introduction.

To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, which has little or no effect with healthy cattle, but causes a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals.