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Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean:

Transport

Art, entertainment, and media

Business, finance, and law

Electronics

Healthcare

  • Piggybacking, a second infusion set onto the same intravenous line using a Y-Set (intravenous therapy)
  • "Piggy-back technique", is a technique in liver transplantation in which the recipient inferior vena cava is preserved.
  • Vision Correction: The wearing of zero- or very-low-strength soft (daily disposable) contact lenses behind hard lenses if the hard lenses alone are uncomfortable or damaging to the cornea.

Science

Security

  • Piggybacking (security), when an authorized person allows (intentionally or unintentionally) others to pass through a secure door when they enter.

Telecommunications