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syringa
another name for mock orange and lilac (sense 1) syringe
1. Med an instrument, such as a hypodermic syringe or a rubber ball with a slender nozzle, for use in withdrawing or injecting fluids, cleaning wounds, etc.
2. any similar device for injecting, spraying, or extracting liquids by means of pressure or suction
syringe [sə′rinj]
(medicine)
An apparatus commonly made of glass or plastic, fitted snugly onto a hollow needle, used to aspirate or inject fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Also known as hypodermic syringe.
A large glass barrel with a fitted rubber bulb at one end and a nozzle at the other, used primarily for irrigation purposes.
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One result is a worldwide market for prefilled syringes that reached just under two billion units in 2008 and is growing at fourteen percent annually.
Prefilled Syringes to Exceed 3 Billion Units in 2012 by Mark Smith / Health, general community
Between April 2007 and March 2008 North West Wales NHS Trust gave out 28,020 syringes but only 8,966, just 32%, were given back under exchange programmes designed to prevent the spread of blood-borne viruses.
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However, the cardiac arrest cart was found to contain only prefilled syringes of epinephrine 1 mg/10 mL intended for intracardiac administration (Figure One), rather than the LifeShield prefilled syringes of epinephrine 1 mg/10 mL (Figure Two) that were to have been stocked on the cart.
Prefilled syringes of epinephrine and compatibility with intravenous ... by Koczmara, Christine; Cornish, Patti; Hyland, Sylvia / Dynamics
 
 
 
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