SYRINGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syringe mean? 

• SYRINGE (noun)
  The noun SYRINGE has 1 sense:

1. a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids

  Familiarity information: SYRINGE used as a noun is very rare.

• SYRINGE (verb)
  The verb SYRINGE has 1 sense:

1. spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe

  Familiarity information: SYRINGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYRINGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("syringe" is a kind of...):

medical instrument (instrument used in the practice of medicine)

Meronyms (parts of "syringe"):

bulb (a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syringe"):

douche; douche bag (a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas)

hypo; hypodermic; hypodermic syringe (a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections)

Derivation:

syringe (spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe)

• SYRINGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they syringe    ... he / she / it syringes   
Past simple: syringed   
Past participle: syringed   
-ing form: syringing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "syringe" is one way to...):

spray (scatter in a mass or jet of droplets)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

syringe (a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids)

 Context examples 

Add or introduce by needle and syringe.

(Inject, NCI Thesaurus)

Drugs may be injected into the inner part of the cervix through a syringe attached to the device.

(CerviPrep, NCI Dictionary)

The needle is inserted through the bone into the bone marrow and the syringe is attached to the top to remove the sample or to deliver drugs or fluid into the bone.

(Jamshidi needle, NCI Dictionary)

On this syringe I base all my hopes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Use of a syringe and needle to push fluids or drugs into the body; often called a "shot."

(Injection, NCI Dictionary)

A sample of liquid bone marrow is removed with a syringe attached to the needle.

(Bone marrow aspiration, NCI Dictionary)

A procedure in which drugs, vitamins, herbal extracts, or other fluids are injected into the body at an acupuncture point using a syringe and needle.

(Acupuncture point injection, NCI Dictionary)

A syringe with a measured dose of medication that has an apparatus that enables the user to specify the amount of the medication to deliver in an injection.

(Adjustable Dose Pre-filled Pen Syringe, NCI Thesaurus)

A pre-filled non-injectable pipette, syringe or tube.

(Applicator, NCI Thesaurus)

Carbon nanotubes can be used as nanometer-scale syringe needles for injecting molecules into cells and as nanoscale probes for making fine-scale measurements.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)