Letter D

Drip

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In medical usage, a drip is not a dull, unattractive person but a device for administering a fluid drop-by-drop into a vein.

It is an intravenous (IV) fluid dripping into a vein, an intravenous fluid drip, a solution (usually a balanced electrolyte solution) administered directly into the venous circulation.

It is, for short, an IV

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