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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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Their theory was that the descending column of water acted somewhat like a syringe, pushing air through the shaft as it fell.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

The Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve the Eylea HD 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

Qaisrani says a father told him he challenged syringe reuse at THQ Taunsa but was ignored by nurses.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

The liquid in the syringe is tinted orange.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

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

The federal health minister, however, has confirmed publicly that the outbreak of 84 cases was triggered by the reuse of contaminated syringes at the hospital.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Mwangi was arrested on March 13 in the Rift Valley in possession of 1,000 live ants of an unspecified species and 113 Messor cephalotes ants hidden in syringes.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

SACRAMENTO—Inside an exam room at this bustling Planned Parenthood center, a clinician prepared six syringes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

There are a few syringes sealed in sterile plastic on a table near Beetee’s bed.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

The roots to be well supplied with water, and the trees to be occasionally syringed overhead.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by William Keane

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

It may be kept from laying eggs on the tree by syringing occasionally with soap-suds.

From The Book of Pears and Plums by Edward Bartrum



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