syringe

as in needle
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin the syringe the nurse was leveling at my arm looked to me to be at least 10 inches long

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Recent Examples of syringe However, the medication came in single-dose vials, requiring patients to use a traditional syringe instead of the more convenient auto-injector pen that treatment usually comes in. Bruce Gil, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2025 Medical bottles and syringe are seen with Novo Nordisk logo displayed on a screen in the background. Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025 The court heard that she had only been fed milky cereal through a syringe. Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024 That’s why Lottie had her cult followers kidnap Natalie at the beginning of season 2, and her time on the compound seems to have brought Natalie some peace… until Misty accidentally stabbed her with a syringe full of poison. Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for syringe

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“Syringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syringe. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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