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syringe

[suh-rinj, sir-inj] / səˈrɪndʒ, ˈsɪr ɪndʒ /
NOUN
medical device for injecting
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
hypodermic hypodermic needle injector


VERB
clean or inject using device
Synonyms


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When densely packed, the spheres have properties that allow the material to behave like a liquid, making it possible to push the mixture through a syringe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

While the drug remains a major revenue driver, a higher-dose, pre-filled syringe version has encountered regulatory delays and rejections tied to manufacturing issues at a third-party filling facility in Indiana.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

And it turns out there’s an ingenious, inexpensive little invention that combines the pacifier with the medicine syringe.

From Slate ● May 17, 2026

What followed was a comedy of errors including military drills that outpaced anything this group of office workers had in mind, a rogue porcupine, stranded airplanes and one syringe to the butt of an employee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

I picked up the syringe, grasped a fold of Fig’s flesh high on the neck, and pinched firmly, tenting the skin.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

The exhibition puts designer Pierre-Olivier Persin’s bust of the creature alongside the syringes, vials and other medical paraphernalia from the mysterious Substance kit that sets the movie’s nightmare in motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Schott Pharma, which makes packaging and delivery systems for injectable medications, attributes the guidance raise to a strong performance and a new agreement with a customer for glass syringes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

South Korean police said on Tuesday they were investigating firms suspected of hoarding medical syringes, as the Middle East war hits supplies of an oil-derived component crucial for making many plastic goods.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

The hospital's medical superintendent Dr Mumtaz Shaikh said in an interview that "qualified doctors will never reuse" syringes, "so we have no concept of such things happening in government hospitals".

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Tamika held up what looked like the supersized version of Fig’s skinny insulin syringes.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

As a last resort, however, a child may be held and the medicine carefully syringed in.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

But it was a two-person task to administer her critical-care rabbit food, a powdered blend of timothy grass and soybean hulls to be mixed with warm water and syringed thrice daily past Judy’s unfriendly teeth.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

Of course, it’s a misconception that everything punk was just three chords syringed with a whole lot of distortion and anarchy.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2014

One recent example was someone who was struggling to get an appointment to have their ears syringed.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2013

If the Wound be deep, it may be syringed with the same Balsam very hot, and the sides of it anointed when drawn together.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

Micro-suction treatment has replaced syringing where GPs removed wax by injecting water into the ear with a large metal syringe.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2022

Other greens on the back nine were watered too, but the syringing began before anyone had played the holes.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 12, 2018

Dr Jessen said: "I advised them to use olive oil as drops. Olive oil is anti-bacterial, antiseptic and softening - they may not need their ears syringing after using that."

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2013

We find her in the lab, syringing gas out of a plastic vial in which a raisin-sized rat turd has been incubating at ninety-nine degrees.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013

If a live insect has gained entrance to the ear, it may first be suffocated by pouring a little oil upon it, and afterward removed by syringing the ear as just mentioned.

From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison



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