Syringe
[sɪ'rɪn(d)ʒ;'sɪ-] or [sɪ'rɪndʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids.
(verb.) spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe.
Editor: Woodrow--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
(v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
(v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Checker: Mollie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Squirt.
Typist: Weldon
Definition
n. a portable hydraulic instrument of the pump kind used to draw in a quantity of liquid and eject it forcibly: a tube used by surgeons for injecting &c.—v.t. to inject or clean with a syringe.
Checker: Lyman
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a syringe, denotes that false alarm of the gravity of a relative's condition will reach you. To see a broken one, foretells you are approaching a period of ill health or worry over slight mistakes in business.
Typed by Audrey
Examples
- I walked into the doctor's yard this morning, and shot my syringe full of aniseed over the hind wheel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was horrified by my first glimpse of Holmes next morning, for he sat by the fire holding his tiny hypodermic syringe. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On this syringe I base all my hopes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He then bared his legs and arms, and they were literally pitted with scars, due to the use of hypodermic syringes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Katy