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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hypo
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I can tell when he is having a hypo because he gets disorientated and confused.
▪ Unfortunately you can't crystallize diamonds out of a solution by seeding them, as you can with hypo.
▪ We can describe what would happen in an elaboration of Cairns-Smith's description of his hypo experiment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypo

Hypo \Hy"po\, n. Hypochondria. [Colloq.]

Hypo

Hypo \Hy"po\, n. [Abbrev. from hyposulphite.] (Photog.) Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hypo

1711, "depression," short for hypochondria; 1904 as short for hypodermic needle.

Wiktionary
hypo

n. (context obsolete English) Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression (obsolete by 1881 according to Eric Partridge.

WordNet
hypo
  1. n. a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing [syn: sodium thiosulphate, sodium thiosulfate]

  2. a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections [syn: hypodermic syringe, hypodermic]

Wikipedia
Hypo

Hypo may be short for:

  • Hypoglycemia, low blood glucose
  • Hypodermic needle, syringe, or injection
  • Hypothecation
  • Hypo Real Estate, a German banking group
  • , a type of bank in German speaking countries

    • in Austria
      • Hypo Alpe Adria Bank, former Kärntner Landes-Hypothekenbank
      • HYPO Steiermark, brand name of Landes-Hypothekenbank Steiermark
      • HYPO Salzburg, brand name of Salzburger Landes-Hypothekenbank
      • HYPO Oberösterreich, brand name of Oberösterreichische Landesbank
      • Hypo Landesbank Vorarlberg
      • Hypo Tirol Bank
      • Hypo Noe Gruppe
      • Hypo Verband, brand name of Verband der österreichischen Landes-Hypothekenbanken

HYPO may refer to:

  • Station HYPO, a signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit

Hypo in chemistry may refer to:

  • Sodium thiosulfate, a chemical compound used in photographic processing.

Usage examples of "hypo".

Juan filled five microneedle hypos full of neomorphine and drew a circle on his leg with a grease pencil fifteen centimeters below his knee.

Inside were labeled hypos, a couple of stat-readers for measuring body temperature, respiration, and blood pressure, a wound sealer, and even an old-fashioned suturing kit.

He showed Walters how to use this and left him at work while he went to prepare his hypos: picrotoxin in one, strychnine in the other.

Soon the smug-seeming, know-it-all debriefer from Hypo was irritating the returning hero by assuring him that long experience had demonstrated that in fact three normal-sized Solarian adults could fit in, though of course they would have to get rid of their space armor first.

He turned back his coat lapel, showing a brass hypo needle covered with mold and verdigris.

And just as he was thinking that, Bonnie casually drew a spray hypo from her belt, stuck it against the side of her neck, and injected herself with the contents, all without slowing her pace in the slightest.

SIXTEEN Ten days or so before the date predicted by Hypo for the berserker onslaught on Fifty Fifty, Cedric Traskeluk, more or less back from the dead to the amazement of everyone except himself, came walking, unaided though limping slightly, out of a staff car and down into the shabby-looking outer regions of the underground domain of Mother R and her code-breaking crew.

Once his record looked in the least doubtful, there wouldn't be any easy, chairborne job with Hypo.

He dipped into his kit, came up with his air hypo, inserted a cartridge and gave Spock a shot, seemingly all in one smooth motion.

And if he had not died until she had him within the receival tray of a fullsize robo-doc there was a chance the machine had been able to hypo adrenalin into him to get his heart functioning, while it had fed him bottles of blood plasma from a needle.

For good measure, Keiko dug out the hypo and injected him with a double dose of broad-spectrum antibiotics and an antivenom shot.

Sucking one cc of epinephrine into the hypo, he administered it sub cu in the victim's shoulder.

Not with every single soul hypoed and immunized and hormoned to his eyebrows.

Somebody hypoed more alkaloids into your toothpaste, and made an interesting addition to your mouthwash.

Actually all the doom it would have gotten from Clement was to get stunned, hypoed, examined, and turned loose, but of course it had no way of knowing that.