INSTILLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does instillation mean? 

• INSTILLATION (noun)
  The noun INSTILLATION has 2 senses:

1. the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop

2. a liquid that is instilled drop by drop

  Familiarity information: INSTILLATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTILLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

instillation; instillment; instilment

Hypernyms ("instillation" is a kind of...):

insertion; introduction; intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "instillation"):

infusion ((medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force))

Derivation:

instill (enter drop by drop)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A liquid that is instilled drop by drop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("instillation" is a kind of...):

liquid (fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume)

Derivation:

instill (enter drop by drop)

 Context examples 

Upon intravesical instillation of cis-urocanic acid (cis-UCA), this agent is protonated at the imidazolyl moiety in the mildly acidic extracellular tumor environment and penetrates into the cancer cell.

(cis-Urocanic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Instillation of a solution into the bladder to provide cleansing or medication.

(Bladder Irrigation, NCI Thesaurus)