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i.v.

i.v. is the abbreviation of intravenous.

Meaning of intravenous

Adjective

intravenous (not comparable)

  1. Inside the veins.
    • Ikenna had typhoid and had been admitted at the hospital, receiving intravenous injections.2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 116

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Questions about i.v.

What is i.v. the abbreviation of?
I.v. is the abbreviation of intravenous.

Words near i.v. in the dictionary

  1. I.O.U.
  2. I.O.U.s
  3. i.p.
  4. i.p.i.
  5. i.q.
  6. i.v.
  7. I.W.
  8. I/DD
  9. i/o
  10. I/O bound
  11. I/Os

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Adapted from Wiktionary: i.v. (page history and authors); intravenous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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