hypodermic
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5.5
- noun
- /ˌhaɪpəˈdɜrmɪk/
- Specialized
:
jeringa hipodérmica
- In an instant, blood spurted into the hypodermic's plastic casing.
- hypodermic needle
- hypodermic syringe
Examples
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The nurse prepared a hypodermic syringe to administer the vaccine to the patient.
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Marshall struggles to assemble the hypodermic and the container of adrenaline.
Fiction book (1997) -
Did we find a hypodermic at the crime scene?
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It's not going to make that thin hypodermic needle sort of scratch.
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Here she finds the hypodermic and fills it.
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A nurse came in and gave Gail a hypodermic to help her sleep.
Fiction book (1997) -
And the hypodermic, still full of phenobarbital, was a few feet away from the crib.
Fiction book (1990) -
Another paramedic is readying a hypodermic.
Fiction book (2002) -
Paying him no mind, Lansky pulls a vial and a hypodermic out of his pocket.
Fiction book (1991) -
I produced a huge veterinary hypodermic syringe fit to sedate a rhinoceros and asked who would like to take part in the experiment.
Synonyms
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3.6
A medical tool with a hollow tube and plunger to push or pull liquid from the body
1
4.9
A small tube with a thin needle used to put medicine under the skin
1
9.9
A syringe with a needle used to give injections
Compounds
- Specialized
7
3.9
A thin hollow tube with a sharp point that doctors use to give medicine or take blood through the skin
- Specialized
1
4.9
A small tube with a thin needle used to put medicine under the skin
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypodermic = hypodermic (opaque) = hypo + derm + ic
The noun use is a lexicalized substantive meaning a syringe or needle, so the device sense is not directly predictable from the adjective alone.
Etymology
Hypodermic comes from the parts hypo- meaning 'under' and derm- meaning 'skin', and the word later came to mean the tool itself. So a hypodermic is a syringe and needle used to put medicine under the skin.