hypodermic needle
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- noun
- /ˌhaɪpəˈdɜrmɪk ˈnidəl/
- Specialized
:
aguja hipodérmica
- Cobb grabs a hypodermic needle and awkwardly pours from a bottle into the chamber.
But they have hot water bottles and hypodermic needles.
- But they have hot water bottles and hypodermic needles.
Examples
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He carefully disposed of the used hypodermic needle in the sharps container.
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The nurse used a hypodermic needle to administer the vaccine.
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I found a hypodermic needle in my bed.
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Just use the hypodermic needle.
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Sarah checks out the hypodermic needle carefully.
Fiction book (1995) -
Inject yourself with the hypodermic needle.
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And then Annie is on him, hypodermic needle in hand, jabbing it into his arm.
Fiction book (1990) -
There hadn't been any fingerprints in the boy's room, not even on the hypodermic needle.
Fiction book (1990) -
A 17-year-old man was referred to our institution following an assault with hypodermic needles in a doctor's clinic.
Academic text (2007) -
The virus is also transmitted through blood transfusions and the use of contaminated hypodermic needles.
Academic text (1993)
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypodermic + needle
The compound is transparently built: 'hypodermic' means 'under the skin' and 'needle' denotes a sharp instrument, so together they clearly denote a needle used for injections beneath the skin. This modifier+noun composition follows regular English word-formation and parallels in other languages, so a learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Hypodermic needle The word hypodermic needle comes from Greek parts: hypo meaning 'under' and dermic meaning 'skin'. It pictures a needle that goes just under the skin to put in medicine or take out blood, so it now means 'a needle used to inject or remove fluids through the skin'.