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Syringes

Syrinx \Syr"inx\, n.; pl. Syringes. [NL., from Gr. ? a pipe.]

  1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.

  2. (Anat.) The lower larynx in birds.

    Note: In birds there are two laringes, an upper or true, but voiceless, larynx in the usual position behind the tongue, and a lower one, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi, which is the true organ of the voice.

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syringes

Etymology 1 n. (plural of syringe English) Etymology 2

n. (plural of syrinx English)

WordNet
syrinx
  1. n. a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together [syn: panpipe, pandean pipe]

  2. the vocal organ of a bird

  3. [also: syringes (pl)]

syringes

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Usage examples of "syringes".

He carried both vials and the syringes back to his bedroom along with a propane torch he kept under the kitchen sink.

Two o'clock and the commandant would be waiting for them: and so, too, would the syringes and the coffee, the Mescaline and the Actedron, waiting to drive them over the edge of madness.

Her way would mean getting into the cabinet, with the syringes in hand, giving herself the injections, pulling down the lid, turning the cylinder controls, and then .

They were much smaller and more delicate than the syringes her father had used to inject serum into young calves.

The small syringes held twenty-five minims each, the larger at least six times as much.

At last he took one of the smaller syringes, filled it with sterile water, and squirted its contents into the measure-glass.

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.

Phillips, without speaking, crossed to the side table, which was set out as before with the three syringes in dishes of water.

They failed, but not for the want of trying, for they were carrying syringes and lethal drugs which they were more than prepared to use.

He removed the depleted ones from the IV ports and introduced the full syringes without injecting any of their contents.

To be on the safe side, he opened the doctor's bag and took out an IV setup, a few syringes, a quarter liter of IV fluid, and a vial each of succiny1choline and morphine and packed them in his briefcase beneath the underwear.

The syringes easily came into his possession through his hospital job.

Charles wrote out prescriptions for morphine, Demerol, Compazine, Xylocaine, syringes, plastic tubing, intravenous solutions, Benadryl, epinephrine, Prednisone, Percodan, and injectable Valium.

The syringes were small, each containing a tiny amount of green glowing fluid.