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inyección

injection

noun een-yek-SYOHN Rare
Body & Health Medicine

Origin: From Latin iniectio, from inicere 'to throw into'.

Usage Note

Inyección covers both a medical injection (poner una inyección, to give an injection) and figurative senses (una inyección de capital, a capital injection; una inyección de confianza, a confidence boost). The verb is inyectar. The plural inyecciones shifts the written accent but retains the same stress pattern.

Examples

"El médico le puso una inyección contra la gripe."

Natural Translation

The doctor gave him a flu injection.

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