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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An apparatus for providing intravenous injections.
  • abbreviation intravenous
  • abbreviation intravenously

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  • initialism medicine Intravenous.
  • initialism statistics Instrumental variable.
  • noun medicine An intravenous injection.
  • noun A Roman numeral representing four (4).
  • abbreviation Used to indicate an ordinal number; the fourth (common as a name suffix.)

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  • noun administration of nutrients through a vein
  • adjective being one more than three
  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From i(ntra)v(enous).]

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abbreviation

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One (I) less than five (V)

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