Definitions for syringe
səˈrɪndʒ, ˈsɪr ɪndʒsy·ringe

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. syringeverb

   a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids

2. syringeverb

   spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. syringenoun

   A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane.

2. syringenoun

   A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

3. syringeverb

   To clean or inject fluid by means of a syringe

   Have your ears syringed, so dirty!

4. Etymology: From seringue, from syringa, from σῦριγξ. Compare syrinx.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Syringenoun

   A pipe through which any liquour is squirted.

   Etymology: συϱιγξ.

   The heart seems not designed to be the fountain or conservatory of the vital flame, but as a machine to receive the blood from the veins and force it out by the arteries through the whole body as a syringe doth any liquor, though not by the same artifice. John Ray.

2. To Syringeverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To spout by a syringe.

   A flux of blood from the nose, mouth, and eye was stopt by the syringing up of oxycrate. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   2. To wash with a syringe.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Syringe

   A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel. The plunger can be linearly pulled and pushed along the inside of the tube, allowing the syringe to take in and expel liquid or gas through a discharge orifice at the front (open) end of the tube. The open end of the syringe may be fitted with a hypodermic needle, a nozzle or tubing to direct the flow into and out of the barrel. Syringes are frequently used in clinical medicine to administer injections, infuse intravenous therapy into the bloodstream, apply compounds such as glue or lubricant, and draw/measure liquids. There are also prefilled syringes (disposable syringes marketed with liquid inside). The word "syringe" is derived from the Greek σύριγξ (syrinx, meaning "Pan flute", "tube").

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Syringenoun

   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

2. Syringeverb

   to inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein

3. Syringeverb

   to wash and clean by injection from a syringe

4. Etymology: [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. , , a pipe or tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. Syringa.]

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Syringe

   A syringe is a simple pump consisting of a plunger that fits tightly in a tube. The plunger can be pulled and pushed along inside a cylindrical tube, allowing the syringe to take in and expel a liquid or gas through an orifice at the open end of the tube. The open end of the syringe may be fitted with a hypodermic needle, a nozzle, or tubing to help direct the flow into and out of the barrel. Syringes are often used to administer injections, insert intravenous drugs into the bloodstream, apply compounds such as glue or lubricant, and measure liquids. The word "syringe" is derived from the Greek συριγξ syrinx = "tube" via back-formation of a new singular from its Greek-type plural "syringes".

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Syringe

   sir′inj, 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. [L. syrinx, (gen.) syringos—Gr. syringx, a reed.]

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Syringe

   in Hemiptera, a chamber into which the salivary ducts open and by means of which the secretion is forced forward between the seta or lancets.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of syringe in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of syringe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of syringe in a Sentence

1. Matt Anderson:

   Patients should feel empowered to verify what am I getting, what is being put in my body, those types of things, so that verification — that simple step to make sure they know what's on the card, the vaccinator knows what's in the syringe — is valuable and important and that's probably the best thing people can be doing about that.

2. Jerome Mouton:

   Someone arriving with a syringe in their hand might be taken as confirmation of all the rumors going around. It's going to be very complicated.

3. Mayor Svante Myrick:

   A lot of people said the same about syringe exchanges - if you're giving away free needles, you're just going to be encouraging people to use heroin, nobody uses heroin because needles are available.

4. Biden TransitionBiden:

   There is no detailed plan that we've seen, anyway, as to how you get the vaccine out of a container, into an injection syringe, into somebody's arm, it's going to be very difficult for that to be done and it's a very expensive proposition.

5. Jerome Mouton:

   Someone arriving with a syringe in their hand might be taken as confirmation of all the rumours going around. It's going to be very complicated.

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