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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An illustrative image of a person holding a medical syringe and a Covid-19 vaccine vial in front of the the AstraZeneca logo displayed on a screen.
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Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
But not everyone has given up Jones was court ordered to stay at the Logansport treatment facility for 90 days after serving time in prison on a charge of unlawful possession of a syringe as a habitual offender.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
Patients will have to draw the medication from a syringe, similar to what people who take compounded weight management drugs have to do.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 5 Sep. 2024
The pink ad, posted as part of a campaign on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook in recent months by the $3.7 billion weight-loss startup Noom, shows the drug’s blue syringe pen moving back and forth below a timeline that doesn’t extend beyond a year.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 July 2024
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Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
But not everyone has given up Jones was court ordered to stay at the Logansport treatment facility for 90 days after serving time in prison on a charge of unlawful possession of a syringe as a habitual offender.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
Patients will have to draw the medication from a syringe, similar to what people who take compounded weight management drugs have to do.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 5 Sep. 2024
The pink ad, posted as part of a campaign on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook in recent months by the $3.7 billion weight-loss startup Noom, shows the drug’s blue syringe pen moving back and forth below a timeline that doesn’t extend beyond a year.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 July 2024
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“Syringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syringe. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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