: a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids
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One vial of the drug Remdesivir lies during a press conference about the start of a study with the Ebola drug Remdesivir in particularly severely ill patients at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, northern Germany on April 8, 2020, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.—John Drake, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026 Erik Fleming, a licensed drug addiction counselor, admitted in a plea agreement to working with another dealer to provide Perry with dozens of vials of ketamine, including the dose that led to the actor's fatal overdose in October 2023 at the age of 54.—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 May 2026 His deliveries included 25 vials for $6,000 four days before Perry’s death.—Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 The helicopter medical team rapidly gathered their helmets and vials of antivenom from the MCR pharmacy before loading into the helicopter.—Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for vial
Word History
Etymology
Middle English fiole, viole, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin fiola, alteration of Latin phiala — more at phial