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drip

Apparatus for delivering blood, drugs and other therapeutic substances directly into the bloodstream. It consists of a bag or bottle, suspended on a stand, the contents of which ‘drip’ at a controlled rate into a tube ending in a hollow needle inserted into a vein.



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`mirk midnight' and chivy round to pull the bedstead out of the drip -- and it was one of those solid, old-fashioned beds that weigh a ton -- more or less.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall--drip, drip, drip--upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
What the exact system might be, if there was any, beyond the placing of them for a long period of years under the drip, I never discovered, but there they sat, iced over and preserved for ever by the siliceous fluid.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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