How to Use intramuscular in a Sentence

intramuscular

adjective
  • Too much intramuscular fat in the thigh can raise the risk of chronic knee pain and arthritis.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Those white sections are intramuscular fat, or the fat inside of the meat rather than the fat on the outside of the meat.
    — USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • In the studies, men were given testosterone via intramuscular shots or through the skin with a hormone patch or gel.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Naloxone is available as a nasal spray and as an intramuscular injection.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On bigger shoulders, a one-inch needle would be too short for intramuscular injections.
    — James Heathers, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
  • Gracey said the use of the pens results in an intramuscular injection that reduces the risk of serious side effects.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Fatty brisket, the more popular of the two in Texas, comes from a muscle called the point that’s marbled with more intramuscular fat.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • For starters, the flu shot is an intramuscular vaccine, which means that it's injected directly into a muscle in your arm.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The flu shot is an intramuscular vaccine, which means it's injected directly into a muscle in your arm.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Administering an intramuscular vaccine too high on the shoulder can cause a rare and painful injury.
    — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • In research with mice at Yale, Iwasaki has devised a nasal spray that works as a booster to the standard intramuscular shot.
    — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 3 May 2022
  • Studies have also linked more intramuscular fat with a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Would nasal spray vaccines be as effective as the intramuscular vaccines currently being used to battle the virus?
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • Some patients become so distressed while boarding that emergency staff have to put them in restraints or give them intramuscular injections.
    — Nathaniel Morris, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • The drug will be administered via intramuscular injection, much like many vaccines.
    — New Atlas, 2 July 2026
  • For intramuscular injections to be most effective, the needle needs to penetrate the muscle, not fat.
    — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The goal of the trial is to determine whether a single intramuscular dose could prevent hospitalizations and deaths.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Ketamine is then administered with one or two intramuscular shots—the mind-altering equivalent of a rocket launch.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Study participants will receive either the nasal spray form or an intramuscular injection of vaccine.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • All are intramuscular, meaning they are injected into the muscle tissue.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The team needed to recreate the Wagyu's signature intramuscular fat content, known more commonly as fat marbling or sashi.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The trial participants were given two intramuscular injections, one month apart from each other.
    — Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Though given as an intramuscular injection, this shot is different than a vaccine, which activates the immune system.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Though given as an intramuscular injection, this shot is different than a vaccine, which activates the immune system.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • That also expands the scope to other countries that may not have the workforce to deliver intramuscular vaccine but may have the capacity to deliver nasal spray.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • Or people could get an intramuscular injection followed by a mucosal boost that produces protective antibodies in the nose and throat.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The vaccine is licensed as a two-dose product, with the doses administered via intramuscular injection 28 days apart.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Only an intramuscular injection of Haldol stopped her from violence against the hospital staff.
    — Winston Ross, Longreads, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Its popularity comes from that tenderness, and that tenderness is because this steak is cut from the tenderloin — a small section closest to the ribs that is low in intramuscular fat.
    — Matt Haines, CNN Underscored, 30 July 2020
  • The two-part vaccine strategy first employs an intramuscular DNA vaccine.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022

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