Syringe

  • 41syringe — [sɪˈrɪndʒ] noun [C] a plastic tube with a needle that is used for putting medicine into your body through your skin …

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  • 42Syringe — Sy|rịn|ge, die; , n <griechisch> (Flieder) …

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  • 43syringe — A small hollow tube used for injecting or withdrawing liquids. It may be attached to a needle in order to withdraw fluid from the body or inject drugs into the body …

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  • 44syringe — [15] Syringes get their name from their cylindrical shape. The word comes from late Latin syringa, an alteration of Latin syrinx, which in turn went back to Greek súrigx ‘pipe, shepherd’s pipe’. The stems of both the mock orange shrub and the… …

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  • 45Garden syringe — Syringe Syr inge, n. [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. ?, ?, a pipe or tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. {Syringa}.] A kind of small hand pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for… …

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  • 46atropine syringe — syringe containing a poisonous drug which relaxes the muscles …

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  • 47hypodermic syringe — syringe attached to a needle (used to inject a dose of medication under the skin) …

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  • 48Gas syringe — A gas syringe also known as glass collecting bottle, is a piece of laboratory glassware used to insert or withdraw a volume of a gas from a closed system, or to measure the volume of gas evolved from a chemical reaction. A gas syringe can also be …

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  • 49Dental syringe — A dental syringe is a syringe used by dentists for the injection of an anesthetic. It consists of a breech loading syringe fitted with a sealed cartridge containing anesthetic solution. The ancillary tool (generally part of a dental engine) used… …

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  • 50Luer syringe — Lu·er syringe lü ər n a glass syringe with a glass piston that has the apposing surfaces ground and that is used esp. for hypodermic injection Luer (d 1883) German instrument maker. Luer is known to have worked in Paris. * * * Lu·er syringe… …

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