Definition of Intramuscular

1. Adjective. Within a muscle. "An intramuscular injection"

Partainyms: Muscle

Definition of Intramuscular

1. Adjective. Inside a muscle or the muscles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intramuscular

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Intramuscular

1. Within the substance of a muscle. Origin: L. Musculus = muscle This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intramuscular

intramolecular lyases
intramolecular oxidoreductases
intramolecular transferases
intramolecularity
intramolecularly
intramonthly
intramucosal
intramundane
intramural
intramural bowel gas
intramural oesophageal dissection
intramural practice
intramural pregnancy
intramurally
intramurals
intramuscular (current term)
intramuscular injection
intramuscularly
intramyocardial
intramyocardially
intramyometrial
intranasal
intranasal anaesthesia
intranasally
intranatal
intranational
intranet
intranets
intraneural
intraneuritic

Literary usage of Intramuscular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"A folder recently issued by a pharmaceutical concern, purporting to describe a satisfactory technic for the intramuscular injection of one of its ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"intramuscular Injections of Calomel for ... advocates the employment of intramuscular injections of calomel. He has amplified the method of Gorsse, ..."

3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The response is considerably greater with intramuscular and peritoneal injection (Meltzer and Auer, 1905; Lapponi, 1915); but it is still much less, ..."

4. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1921)
"... THE ADMINISTRATION OF DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN, VACCINATION THE HYPODERMIC AND intramuscular INJECTION OF DRUGS Drugs may be administered by injection into ..."

5. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND intramuscular INJECTION Blood transfusion* has been practised in some form since the discovery by Harvey of the circulation; ..."

6. Syphilis, its diagnosis, prognosis, prevention and treatment by Thomas Pugh Beddoes (1910)
"intramuscular INJECTIONS. In England most patients can be treated throughout by the ingestion method ; but there are certain cases where the digestive tract ..."

7. Applied Immunology by Benjamin Abraham Thomas, Robert Henry Ivy (1915)
"More recently intramuscular injections have been extensively made with simple suspensions of salvarsan and neo- salvarsan in oils, 1:10 dilution, ..."

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