Syringe
Syringe , noun
[French seringue (compare Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, Italian sciringa, scilinga), fg. Greek {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, a pipe or tube; compare Sanskrit svar to sound, and English swarum. Compare Syringa.]
A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
Collocations (1)
Garden syringe , See Garden.
Syringe , transitive verb
1.
To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
2.
To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.