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syringeful

  • a word derived from syringe.
    syringe
    noun
    a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.

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She injected a syringeful of saline into the vial and shook it, pushed a needle into the vial and withdrew about half the contents.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2016

After each movement of the bowels, a small hand-ball syringeful of cold water should be thrown into the rectum and retained.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 by Various

Decoction of oak bark, a pint; dried alum, half an ounce: for an injection, a syringeful to be used night and morning.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

Of this he injected a syringeful into the back of a rabbit.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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