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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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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

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

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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