syringe

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syringe with hypodermic needle

Etymology

From French seringue, from Medieval Latin syringa, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Doublet of syrinx.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ
• Hyphenation: sy‧ringe

Noun

syringe (plural syringes)

1. A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane.
   • 2013 January 2, Lisa Selin Davis, “Is the Medical Community Failing Breastfeeding Moms?”, in Time‎:

     In Kelly’s case, once the baby was admitted to the hospital, she began to use formula, fed through a syringe—she was told to avoid bottles because the baby would reject the breast.

2. A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

Usage notes

• Syringe mostly refers specifically to medical devices for injecting drugs into a human body or drawing blood from one (or other human fluids), but the broader definition sees occasional use, particularly in specialized fields.

Derived terms

• butterfly syringe
• garden syringe
• gas syringe
• hypodermic syringe
• ink syringe
• meat syringe
• microsyringe
• nanosyringe
• syringeable
• syringeful
• syringeless
• syringelike

 

Translations

a device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane

Albanian: shiringë (sq) f Azerbaijani: şpris Bulgarian: спринцовка (bg) f (sprincovka) Catalan: xeringa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 针筒 (zh) (zhēntǒng), 注射器 (zh) (zhùshèqì) Danish: sprøjte c Finnish: ruisku (fi) French: poire (fr) f Galician: xiringa f German: Spritze (de) f Greek: Ancient: κλυστήρ m (klustḗr) Japanese: 注射器 (ja) (chūshaki) Maori: pūwero Ottoman Turkish: شرنغه (şırınga) Plautdietsch: Spretz f Polish: strzykawka (pl) f Portuguese: seringa (pt) f Russian: спринцо́вка (ru) f (sprincóvka) Slovak: striekačka f Spanish: jeringa (es) f Swahili: sirinji (sw) Tagalog: panturok, hiringgilya Turkish: şırınga (tr)

hypodermic syringe

Albanian: shiringë (sq) f Arabic: حُقْنَة f (ḥuqna), مِحْقَنَة f (miḥqana) Moroccan Arabic: إبرة f (ʔibra), برة f (bra), شوكة f (šūka) Armenian: ներարկիչ (hy) (nerarkičʻ), շպրից (hy) (špricʻ) Asturian: xeringa f Azerbaijani: şırınqa f, şpris Basque: xiringa Belarusian: шпрыц m (špryc) Bengali: সিরিঞ্জ (bn) (śirinjo) Bulgarian: шприц (bg) m (špric), спринцо́вка (bg) f (sprincóvka) Burmese: ပြွတ် (my) (prwat) Catalan: xeringa (ca) f Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵙⴳⵏⵉⵜ f (tisgnit) Chinese: Cantonese: 注射器 (zyu3 se6 hei3) Mandarin: 注射器 (zh) (zhùshèqì) Czech: injekční stříkačka f, stříkačka (cs) f Danish: sprøjte c Dutch: injectiespuit (nl) c, spuit (nl) c Esperanto: injektilo Estonian: prits Faroese: sproyta f Finnish: injektioruisku French: seringue (fr) f Galician: xiringa f, xeringa f Georgian: შპრიცი (šṗrici) German: Spritze (de) f Greek: σύριγγα (el) f (sýringa) Gujarati: સિરિંજ f (siriñj) Hebrew: מַזְרֵק (he) m (mazrék) Hindi: सुई (hi) f (suī), सिरिंज f (siriñj) Hungarian: fecskendő (hu) Icelandic: sprauta (is) f Indonesian: semprotan (id), sepuit (id) Irish: steallaire f Italian: siringa (it) f Japanese: 注射器 (ja) (chūshaki) Kannada: ಸಿರಿಂಜ್ (siriñj) Kazakh: шприц (şpris) Khmer: សឺរ៉ាំង (səɨrang) Kongo: ntumbu Korean: 주사기(注射器) (ko) (jusagi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: şirinqe (ku) Kyrgyz: шприц (ky) (şprits) Lao: ກ້ອງສີດຢາ (kǭng sīt yā), ກ້ອງສັກຢາ (kǭng sak yā), ກ້ອງສີດ (kǭng sīt), ເຄື່ອງສີດຢາ (khư̄ang sīt yā) Latin: sȳrinx f (medical, post-Medieval) Latvian: šļirce f Lithuanian: švirkštas f Macedonian: шприц m (špric) Malay: picagari Malayalam: സിറിഞ്ചു് (siṟiñcŭŭ) Maori: pūwero Mongolian: Cyrillic: тариур (mn) (tariur) Norman: sérîngue f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: sprøyte (no) m or f Occitan: seringa (oc) f Ottoman Turkish: شرنغه (şırınga) Pashto: پېچکاري (ps) f (pečkārī) Persian: سرنگ (fa) (sorang) Plautdietsch: Spretz f Polish: strzykawka (pl) f Portuguese: seringa (pt) f Romanian: seringă (ro) f Russian: шприц (ru) m (špric) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бри̏згалица f, шпри̏ц m Roman: brȉzgalica (sh) f, šprȉc (sh) m Slovak: striekačka f Slovene: brizgalka f, brizga f Spanish: jeringa (es) f, jeringuilla f Swedish: spruta (sv) c Tagalog: hiringgilya, panturok Tajik: сӯзан (tg) (süzan), шпритс (šprits) Tamil: மருந்தூசி (ta) (maruntūci) Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⵙⴳⵏⵉⵜ f (tisgnit), ⵜⴰⵙⵎⵉ f (tasmi) Thai: เข็มฉีดยา (th) (kěm-chìit-yaa-chaa), กระบอกฉีดยา (th) (grà-bɔ̀ɔk-chìit-yaa) Turkish: enjektör (tr), şırınga (tr) Turkmen: şpris Ukrainian: шприц m (špryc) Urdu: محقنہ (mihqina), سرنج f (sirinj) Uyghur: شپىرىس (shpiris) Uzbek: shprits (uz) Vietnamese: ống chích (vi), bơm tiêm (vi), ống tiêm (vi) Walloon: sirinke (wa) f Welsh: chwistrell (cy), chwistrellau (cy) m Yiddish: שפּריץ m (shprits)

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Norman: (please verify) êclyiche f (Jersey)

See also

• 💉
• inject
• intravenous
• needle
• shoot up

Verb

syringe (third-person singular simple present syringes, present participle syringing, simple past and past participle syringed)

1. To clean or rinse by means of a syringe.

   Have your ears syringed! They're so dirty!

2. To inject by means of a syringe.

Translations

to clean or rinse

Finnish: ruiskuttaa (fi) German: ausspülen (de) Romanian: clăti (ro)

to inject

Bulgarian: инжектирам (bg) (inžektiram) Finnish: ruiskuttaa (fi) German: spritzen (de), injizieren (de) Romanian: injecta (ro)

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French: (please verify) seringuer (fr)

References

• Category:syringes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Rigneys, Yingers, reysing

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /syːˈrin.ɡe/, [s̠yːˈrɪŋɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈrin.d͡ʒe/, [siˈrin̠ʲd͡ʒe]
• Homophone: Sȳringe

Noun

sȳringe f

1. ablative singular of sȳrinx

Old English

Noun

sȳringe

1. inflection of sȳring:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural