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syringe

[suh-rinj, sir-inj] / səˈrɪndʒ, ˈsɪr ɪndʒ /
NOUN
medical device for injecting
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
hypodermic hypodermic needle injector


VERB
clean or inject using device
Synonyms


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The nurse, who had gone to another ward to get the insulin, asked Norris to check the syringe dosage and apologised for not having the ampoule they had drawn it from.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

When densely packed, the spheres have properties that allow the material to behave like a liquid, making it possible to push the mixture through a syringe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Eylea franchise, which would require approval of the pre-filled syringe.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

And it turns out there’s an ingenious, inexpensive little invention that combines the pacifier with the medicine syringe.

From Slate ● May 17, 2026

He tried to hold the skunk the way Mom had, and then took the syringe in his other hand.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

About 721,000 needles and syringes were given out, which is a 7.5% increase compared with the previous year.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

On Wednesday, Judge I'Ashea Myles ordered that "anything that was in the actual room needs to be preserved and maintained," including IV lines and syringes, as well as waste, such as packaging, inserts and labels.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The exhibition puts designer Pierre-Olivier Persin’s bust of the creature alongside the syringes, vials and other medical paraphernalia from the mysterious Substance kit that sets the movie’s nightmare in motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Schott Pharma, which makes packaging and delivery systems for injectable medications, attributes the guidance raise to a strong performance and a new agreement with a customer for glass syringes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

At the beginning of each day, the nuns at Yambuku Hospital would lay out five hypodermic syringes on a table, and they would use them to give shots to patients all day long.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

As a last resort, however, a child may be held and the medicine carefully syringed in.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

But it was a two-person task to administer her critical-care rabbit food, a powdered blend of timothy grass and soybean hulls to be mixed with warm water and syringed thrice daily past Judy’s unfriendly teeth.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

Of course, it’s a misconception that everything punk was just three chords syringed with a whole lot of distortion and anarchy.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2014

One recent example was someone who was struggling to get an appointment to have their ears syringed.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2013

If the journey has been a long one, the plants should be well syringed at once, and the roots plunged in a bucket of water for half-an-hour before planting.

From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley

Micro-suction treatment has replaced syringing where GPs removed wax by injecting water into the ear with a large metal syringe.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2022

Other greens on the back nine were watered too, but the syringing began before anyone had played the holes.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 12, 2018

Dr Jessen said: "I advised them to use olive oil as drops. Olive oil is anti-bacterial, antiseptic and softening - they may not need their ears syringing after using that."

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2013

We find her in the lab, syringing gas out of a plastic vial in which a raisin-sized rat turd has been incubating at ninety-nine degrees.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013

If a live insect has gained entrance to the ear, it may first be suffocated by pouring a little oil upon it, and afterward removed by syringing the ear as just mentioned.

From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison


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