syringe
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At the same time, in the same treatment room, another nurse was arranging insulin mixed with saline in a 50ml syringe for the diabetic patient.
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
While the drug remains a major revenue driver, a higher-dose, pre-filled syringe version has encountered regulatory delays and rejections tied to manufacturing issues at a third-party filling facility in Indiana.
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
In a last-ditch effort to save Roosevelt’s life, the doctor filled his syringe with quinine and injected it directly into Roosevelt’s abdomen.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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A diabetic, the 65-year-old said he couldn’t afford insulin and the local clinic rarely has syringes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Individual strands of acrylic paint are extruded from syringes, dried, and woven into the blazer-and-skirt ensemble “Anna.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
These worries are especially pronounced in hospitals, where critical medical supplies like syringes, gloves and dialysis equipment are made with the substance.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
There was the same operating table, the same glass syringes.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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 house must be fumigated, and the trees syringed on the least appearance of aphis.
From The Book of Pears and Plums by Edward Bartrum
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
Give air freely, shut up early, and syringe the plants overhead till the flowers expand, when syringing should be discontinued.
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
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