as in needle
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
he hardly felt it when the nurse stuck the hypodermic in his arm
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Recent Examples of hypodermic
What is more confronting is that the central character is a girl of 13 who has just been forcibly tattooed by a classmate with a dirty hypodermic.
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025
The syringes of those needles are in turn labelled, so that medical workers can keep track of which medications are in which hypodermics.
—New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025
The syringes of those needles are in turn labelled, so that medical workers can keep track of which medications are in which hypodermics.
—New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypodermic
Noun
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Going back to last season, the Ducks have added considerably more than the Oilers, who, outside of blue-liner Jake Walman, have not moved the needle much with their acquisitions.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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Growing up to hundreds of feet tall and dozens of feet across, with rich, golden-brown bark and dark green needles, there’s nothing quite as awe-inspiring as a California redwood.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But Larissa, a nurse always at the ready with syringe full of sedatives, is inflexible about Katie remaining at home.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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No syringe was found at the scene.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Hypodermic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypodermic. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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