ampoule

UK/ˈæm.puːl/US/ˈæm.puːl/

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: ampoules

An ampoule is a tiny sealed glass tube of liquid medicine. Snap open the ampoule, a glass ampoule, draw it from the ampoule.

It is sealed by melting the glass shut, so the contents stay sterile until the neck is snapped, and a filter needle is used because tiny fragments fall in. Americans spell it ampule or ampul.

Definitions of ampoule

1nounampouleA tiny sealed glass tube of liquid medicine.C2
“The nurse snapped open an ampoule and drew the medicine into a syringe.”

ampoule is a container.

Where it comes from

French ampoule comes from Latin ampulla, a small flask, a diminutive of amphora.

French
ampoule
English, today
ampoule

French ampoule. Etymologically equivalent to amphora + -ule/-le. a doublet of ampulla.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Containers & Packaging

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ampoule in the wild

An ampoule (also ampul and ampule) is a small sealed vial used to contain and preserve a sample, usually a solid or liquid.
Ampoule
Modern ampoules are most commonly used for pharmaceuticals and chemicals that must be protected from air and contaminants.
Ampoule
In 1886, he introduced the ampoule in medicine.
Carl Friedländer
Suxethonium (trade name: Brevidil-E) is a depolarising muscle relaxant which is presented as a dry powder in an ampoule.
Suxethonium chloride
The culture fee, in case of an ampoule, for commercial organizations is 10800 Japanese yen and the fee for non-profit organizations is 5400 Japanese yen.
Japan Collection of Microorganisms

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