as in needle
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
he hardly felt it when the nurse stuck the hypodermic in his arm
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The syringes of those needles are in turn labelled, so that medical workers can keep track of which medications are in which hypodermics.
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“Hypodermic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypodermic. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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