Crossword clues for hypodermic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hypodermic \hyp`o*der"mic\, n. A hypodermic needle[2].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis n. A hypodermic syringe, needle or injection
WordNet
adj. relating to or located below the epidermis; "hypodermic needle"; "subcutaneous implant" [syn: subcutaneous]
n. a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections [syn: hypodermic syringe, hypo]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hypodermic".
The frequent vomiting made it impossible to administer remedies by the stomach, and, in spite of hypodermic injections and external application of analeptics, the boy died fifty hours after operation.
Doctor Dan Stander pushed the hypodermic needle into his arm and shot him full of morphine.
Dr Dan Stander pushed the hypodermic needle into his arm and shot him full of morphine.
As Trixie nodded, he removed the tourniquet and took out his hypodermic syringe.
But he also thought about his wife, and taking a hypodermic needle from the table, he injected himself with the exact quantity of venom he would have received from the stings of five toxic bees - the maximum the antidote could suppress without causing blindness.
Pasteur, Brown-Sequard, and our own specialists, in the use of extracts of nerve substance and of certain glands and organs by hypodermic or subcutaneous injection of these fluids, has, in a vast number of cases, been most gratifying to both physicians and patients.
Ryan could only watch as Damm and Nara took turns stabbing each other in the lungs with similar, long-needled hypodermics, teeth clenched, eyes pressed shut as thumbs pressed the plungers home.
The experience of Pasteur, Brown-Sequard, and our own specialists, in the use of extracts of nerve substance and of certain glands and organs by hypodermic or subcutaneous injection of these fluids, has, in a vast number of cases, been most gratifying to both physicians and patients.
She knew what it was even before she picked it up: the hypodermic that had never been used, now rustier than ever, its cap still on.
Next to the rusted tracks and between the even rustier I-beams, the floor is covered with condom wrappers, cigarette butts, and at least two used hypodermic needles.
Simon moved aside to let the skurrying nurse into the room with a hypodermic.
He removed other things from the bag too: a length of flexible rubber tubing, a sphygmomanometer for monitoring blood pressure, two small bottles of amber-colored fluid, and a packet of disposable hypodermic syringes.
From the surgery he took a couple of pre-sterilized hypodermic syringes and two ampoules, which he concealed carefully in his pocket.
Beside it, a similar case held two transparent ampoules and four hypodermic syringes.
Anticipating possible trouble, Baudelio prepared another hypodermic of midazolam and injected it.