SYRINGE

syringe. Syringe, n. a pipe to squirt or inject liquids with

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Syr″inge (?), n. [[F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. �, �, a pipe or tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. 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. Garden syringe. See Garden.