Syringe
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A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, orfor purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barreland piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or withoutvalves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexibletube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.Garden syringe. See Garden.
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a tool used by doctors, drug users, and diabetics to put medicine or drug into the body by squeezing the medicine threw a needle poked through the skin.
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A tube with a nozzle and piston or bulb for sucking in and ejecting liquid in a thin stream, used for cleaning wounds or body cavities, or fitted with a hollow needle for injecting or withdrawing fluids.
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adjective
to be of a calm nature
/ causing great [admiration] and respect
/ wise
/ based
/ higher status than [Alpha]opposite : [cringe]
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