hypodermic syringe
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4.9
- noun
- /ˌhaɪpəˈdɜrmɪk səˈrɪndʒ/
- Specialized
:
jeringa hipodérmica
- Which gave you plenty of time to go into Dr. King's tent, take the hypodermic syringe and put an end to a long and valued friendship.
- use a hypodermic syringe to inject
- fill a hypodermic syringe
Examples
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Kari finished filling a hypodermic syringe with epinephrine, and Ken activated the defibrillation machine to let it build up a charge.
Fiction book (1992) -
He put it to my neck, like they do with those futuristic hypodermic syringes on Star Trek, and did something with it (don't ask me, my eyes were shut).
Fiction book (1991) -
Madame, do you by any chance own a hypodermic syringe?
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Ores was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a hypodermic syringe.
Blog text (22) -
I produced a huge veterinary hypodermic syringe fit to sedate a rhinoceros and asked who would like to take part in the experiment.
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The first brigand nods and takes a capped hypodermic syringe from the second man.
Fiction book (2001) -
Yes, of course, that is your story, but you could quite easily have taken your hypodermic syringe, the one Miss Quinton found where you dropped it, and you could've killed Mrs. Boynton.
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I always felt, when I'm in my car in a dark parking structure, sneaking my feeding session with a large hypodermic syringe, what if an uninformed person or rookie security guard happened by spotting my activity and mistakenly interpreted it as a criminal act?
Blog text (13) -
"Misguided doctors gave it to their patients in the Civil War in America, thinking it would be less addicting than ether or chloroform, especially if given by the then-new invention of the hypodermic syringe, into the vein rather than the stomach.
Fiction book (1993) -
The nurse came back into the room with a hypodermic syringe in her hand.
Synonyms
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3.6
A medical tool with a hollow tube and plunger to push or pull liquid from the body
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5.5
A syringe with a hollow needle for injecting medicine under the skin
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9.9
A syringe with a needle used to give injections
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'hypodermic' = 'pertaining to below the skin' and 'syringe' = 'a medical instrument for injecting', so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer a syringe used for injecting into or beneath the skin. This construction follows regular English compounding and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, making the phrase readily understandable from its parts.
Etymology
The noun hypodermic syringe is a simple, clear name: hypodermic means 'under the skin' and syringe is a tube with a needle used to put liquid into the body. So it refers to a syringe used for 'injecting' or 'putting medicine under the skin'.