iv

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The virus is usually contracted via blood contact such as with IV drug abusers sharing needles.

The drugs are injected by needle into a vein or into an IV line.

a method of slowly giving someone liquid medicine or food through a tube into a vein (= a tube that carries blood to the heart from the other parts of the body), or a piece of equipment for doing this :

After two months of being fed by IV, the baby began taking milk from a syringe.

The doctor placed the IV in her leg.