VIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vial mean? 

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

1. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ampoule; ampul; ampule; phial; vial

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

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

 Context examples 

A vial dosing unit expressed in gram(s) per vial.

(Gram per Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

A vial dosing unit expressed in milligram(s) per vial.

(Milligram per Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

A vial intended to contain more than one dose of the drug product.

(Multi Dose Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

No participant could discriminate among vials that overlapped in their components by more than 90% for the 10, 20, or 30 components.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)

A vial used to store specimens in a cryopreservative at very low temperatures.

(Cryovial, NCI Thesaurus)

The level of benzene also decreased in the modified plant vials, but at a slower rate, it took eight days for the levels to decrease by 75%.

(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A vial that has a patented delivery system.

(Patent Delivery System Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

To him, Judge Scott was the keystone in the arch of injustice, and upon Judge Scott he emptied the vials of his wrath and hurled the threats of his revenge yet to come.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A vial that is used by the pharmacist to dispense the prescribed medication.

(Dispensing Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

A vial that contains a parenteral preparation that can be attached directly to the tubing of a parenterally administered fluid.

(Piggyback Vial, NCI Thesaurus)