Other forms: syringes
A syringe is the tube and needle used to give injections. Fill the syringe, a sterile syringe, dispose of the syringe.
Single use is the rule everywhere, and reuse spreads bloodborne infection — needle exchange programmes exist for exactly that reason and are among the best-evidenced public health measures there are. The Greek syrinx means a pipe or reed.
1nounsyringeA tube and needle used to give injections.
“The nurse filled a syringe with the vaccine.”
syringe is a medical instrument.
Latin syrinx comes from Greek syrinx, a pipe or reed.
Middle French
syringe
English, today
syringe
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French syringe. From Middle French syringe (“syringe”), from Latin syrinx, accusative of sȳrinx (“reed, panpipe”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (“pipe, syrinx”). a doublet of syrinx.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA