| | Autoinjector -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | An autoinjector is a (additional info and facts about medical device) medical device designed to deliver a single (A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time) dose of a particular (typically life-saving) (A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic) drug. |
 | | Depending on the drug loaded, the autoinjector is pressed against different places in the body; typically, the (The part of the leg between the hip and the knee) thigh or the (The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on) buttocks are the safest if you must act but do not know. |
 | | In the (A war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; 1990-1991) Gulf War, accidental and unnecessary use of atropine autoinjectors proved to be a major medical problem. |
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