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Injection (medicine)

Introducing a liquid medication or vaccine into human muscle tissue via a syringe needle.

First in use: the 1600s
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Code injection

Smuggling malicious executable statements into an application input field to manipulate underlying databases (e.g., SQL injection).

First in use: c. 1998

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Syringes vs. SQL injection.

Which meaning of Inject is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Injection (medicine) came first (the 1600s). Code injection arrived in 1998. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Injection (medicine)

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Code injection

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