Definitions
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- noun A
five -percent (byvolume )solution ofdextrose , suitable forintravenous injection .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had an IV running with D5W fluids at a rate of only 50mL/hour and she still has not been given any nutritional supplements via her IV.
Bil Browning: The Christmas Miracle: An Update on Betsie Gallardo Bil Browning 2010
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She had an IV running with D5W fluids at a rate of only 50mL/hour and she still has not been given any nutritional supplements via her IV.
Bil Browning: The Christmas Miracle: An Update on Betsie Gallardo Bil Browning 2010
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This is what starts coursing through her veins: the Daunorubicin, 50 mg in 25 ccs of D5W; Cytarabine, 46 mg in a D5W infusion, a continuous twenty-four-hour IV; Allopurinol, 92 mg IV.
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004
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Physically, he looked only a little the worse for wear, with bandaged leg and shoulder and a needle in his arm feeding him D5W from a bottle hung on an IV stand.
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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Of course, it's hard for the average layman to remember if they received a "liter of D5W" or a
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Of course, it's hard for the average layman to remember if they received a "liter of D5W" or a
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Of course, it's hard for the average layman to remember if they received a "liter of D5W" or a
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Of course, it's hard for the average layman to remember if they received a "liter of D5W" or a
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Of course, it's hard for the average layman to remember if they received a "liter of D5W" or a
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NO 80 ppm 5\% dextrose in water (D5W) 1 mL / min 20 min NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) 4 to 8 mol / min NOS inhibitor blood flow was measured by venous occlusion plethysmography (Hokanson) during which time hyperspectral images were collected
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