Lexic.us

Definition of Phial

1. Noun. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).

Definition of Phial

1. n. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

2. v. t. To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.

Definition of Phial

1. Noun. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phial

1. a vial [n -S]

Medical Definition of Phial

1. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial. Origin: F. Fiole, L. Phiala a broad, flat, shallow cup or bowl, Gr. Cf. Vial. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phial

Literary usage of Phial

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

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or <-\-.-eed. at the ¡^tail price or value, the sum of ten retail price or value of five cents and shall not ..."

2. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834)
"When this experiment is considered, I think, it must fully prove that the exterior surface of a charged phial wants electric matter, while the inner surface ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different by John Quekett (1855)
"The use of this apparatus is obvious; a smooth wide-mouth phial, having chara or other water plants growing in it, is to be introduced into the large tube ..."

4. Rational Recreations by William Hooper (1782)
"Have a phial with a narrow neck and a ... and plunge the phial in boiling water : then take it out, and pouring out the water, put the boiling mixture ..."

5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1774)
"The phial mutt be covered u<> u :tb fand, (o as only to leave a part cf.it b,are, ... the (iie being ilill kept up, the orifice of the phial is to be well ..."

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