A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
A mild verbal insult.
A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
A short straight punch.
A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
To give someone an injection
To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
To deliver a quick punch.
A route of administration for some vaccinations and tests: rather than hypodermic injection, the site is inoculated intradermally not with any injection but rather only with small, shallow pricks or scratches; the needle is not hollow.
A medieval form of penance in which the skin was damaged with a knife or hot iron.
The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
The scratching, etching, burning / branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.