Crossword clues for ampoule
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ampoule \ampoule\ n. 1. same as ampule.
Syn: phial, vial, ampule, ampul
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small bottle or flask," especially one used for holy liquids, c.1200, from Old French ampole, from Latin ampulla "small globular flask or bottle," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a contracted form of amphora.
Wiktionary
n. A small hermetically sealed vial containing a sterile solution suitable for injection.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An ampoule (also ampul, ampule, or ampulla) is a small sealed vial which is used to contain and preserve a sample, usually a solid or liquid. Ampoules are commonly made of glass, although plastic ampoules do exist.
Modern ampoules are most commonly used to contain pharmaceuticals and chemicals that must be protected from air and contaminants. They are hermetically sealed by melting the thin top with an open flame, and usually opened by snapping off the neck. If properly done, this last operation creates a clean break without any extra glass shards or slivers; but the liquid or solution may be filtered for greater assurance. The space above the chemical may be filled with an inert gas before sealing. The walls of glass ampoules are usually sufficiently strong to be brought into a glovebox without any difficulty.
Glass ampoules are more expensive than bottles and other simple containers, but there are many situations where their superior imperviousness to gases and liquids and all-glass interior surface are worth the extra cost. Examples of chemicals sold in ampoules are injectable pharmaceuticals, air-sensitive reagents like tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0), hygroscopic materials like deuterated solvents and trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, and analytical standards.
Usage examples of "ampoule".
I have taped a virus ampoule to a simple explosive device which will be detonated at 3.
If the demolition of Mordon has not commenced by midnight to-night I shall be compelled to break another ampoule tomorrow.
I watched him, gripped with fear and fascination such as I had never known, as he handled the ampoule carelessly then stooped swiftly and laid it on the wet road, under the sole of his left shoe.
I wondered briefly if a couple of heavy slugs from the Hanyatti would drive him over backwards, jerking his foot off the ampoule, but the thought died as it came.
Then, and not until then, did Gregori carefully remove his foot from the ampoule, stoop, pick it up and slide it back inside its steel jacket.
I could see there was no chance on earth of its being intercepted, my hands were reaching out for the barrel of cider on the trestle by my side, and the tinkling of the shattered ampoule was still echoing in shocked silence in that tiny little room when I smashed down the barrel with all the strength of my arms and body exactly on the spot where the glass had made contact.
Pour it on the floor, down the side of the wall, spray it through the air above where that damned ampoule landed.
I stared down at the ampoule in his hand, the little glass vial and the sealed blue plastic top.
I grimly filled the syringe from the last ampoule and injected the teaspoonful into his muscles.
An ampoule, a bottle, a small bowl and a measure-glass also stood on the table.
She described the impedimenta that were put out on a side table before the operationa full bottle of hyoscine solution, an ampoule of anti-gas serum, syringes, a bowl of distilled water.
Nurse Banks went to the side table, took up the ampoule of camphor, went through the pantomime of filling a syringe and returned to the patient.
I asked, touching the empty ampoule from which he had injected the contents into her.
It was saturated with blood by the time 1 fumbled out the ampoule of No-shock, laid it against her arm and pushed the button.
It was a commercial preparation kept in an ampoule from which she simply filled the syringe.