syringe

A small device used to push liquid into the body or draw liquid out.

• The nurse filled a syringe.
• Use a new syringe for each injection.
• The doctor drew blood into the syringe.

Common phrases: sterile syringe, plastic syringe, fill a syringe, disposable syringe

To clean something, especially an ear, by pushing liquid into it with a small device.

• The nurse syringed his ear.
• Both ears needed to be syringed.
• The doctor used warm water to syringe the blocked ear.

Similar words: irrigate, flush

Common phrases: syringe an ear, syringe someone’s ears

To push liquid into something using a small tube with a movable part.

• They syringed the liquid into the tube.
• The technician syringed a measured dose into the sample.
• Carefully syringe the solution into the tissue.

How to use it: syringe something into something (She syringed the fluid into the sealed container.)

Similar words: inject

Common phrases: syringe something into, syringe the solution