hypodermic

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But the Beauty was originally intended as a commercial product, a “fountain of youth” in hypodermic form, created by immortality-seeking billionaires.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

"Mosquitoes evolved right along with them with a new feeding strategy of developing hypodermic needles for mouths and feeding on blood in order for females to have plenty of protein to develop mature eggs."

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

You think the Iron Throne is bad, the bassinets in the Seven Kingdoms are probably made out of old razor blades and hypodermic needles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2022

That’s because the physics of a tattoo needle differ greatly from those of a hypodermic needle.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 18, 2022

Finally a doctor came, gray-haired, white-coated, spectacled, efficient, serious, taciturn, bearing a tray upon which sat a bottle of mysterious fluid and a hypodermic needle.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright