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Definition of Hypodermic syringe

1. Noun. A piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections.

Medical Definition of Hypodermic syringe

1. A small syringe with a barrel (which may be calibrated), perfectly matched plunger, and tip; used with a hollow needle for subcutaneous injections and for aspiration. Synonym: hypodermic. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypodermic Syringe

Literary usage of Hypodermic syringe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"Of tfie hypodermic syringe. There are a number of patterns of hypodermic syringes, but their varieties involve no real difference of principle. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"hypodermic syringe which we noticed in our January number last year. The instrument can thus be readily taken entirely to pieces and sterilised, ..."

3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1898)
"In his part of the country the charlatans were using the hypodermic syringe for their aggrandizement, and he- had no doubt they were doing harm with it. ..."

4. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"... been made hitherto in this field, has been due to careful observation and experiment, and not to haphazard use of the hypodermic syringe. Thyroid Gland. ..."

5. Local and Regional Anesthesia: With Chapters on Spinal, Epidural by Carroll Woolsey Allen (1920)
"1 have often seen the barrel of the ordinary hypodermic syringe break under the ... THE HISTORY OF THE hypodermic syringe The invention of the hypodermic ..."

6. The Immediate Care of the Injured by Albert Sidney Morrow (1906)
"hypodermic syringe. orby immersion for a few minutes in an antiseptic solution. To fill the syringe, place the needle in the medicine to be given and draw ..."

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